Securing wireless communication against wormhole attacks

Authors:
Christopher Moss;Deidre W. Evans
Affiliations:
Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, Florida;Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, Florida
Venue:
EHAC'05 Proceedings of the 4th WSEAS International Conference on Electronics, Hardware, Wireless and Optical Communications
Year:
2005

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Abstract

Secure authentication in routing protocols is increasingly becoming an issue of great importance. A threat in the form of wormhole attacks has presented itself. Using wormholes, an attacker can cripple and even completely disable wireless networks, with limited resources and no cryptographic information. Furthermore, wormhole attacks can serve as the launching pad for other types of attacks such as selective forwarding and eavesdropping. Because of the nature of wormhole attacks, security measures must be taken at the protocol level.