Software puzzle: A countermeasure to resource-inflated denial-of-service attacks

• Main Authors: WU, Yongdong, ZHAO, Zhigang, FENG, Bao, DENG, Robert H.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: Software puzzle; code obfuscation; GPU programming; distributed denial of service (DDoS); Computer Sciences; Information Security
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/2539; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/3539/viewcontent/Software_puzzle_A_countermeasure_to_resource_inflated_denial_of_service_attacks.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Denial-of-service (DoS) and distributed DoS (DDoS) are among the major threats to cyber-security, and client puzzle, which demands a client to perform computationally expensive operations before being granted services from a server, is a well-known countermeasure to them. However, an attacker can in...