Enhanced ARP: preventing ARP poisoning-based man-in-the-middle attacks

Authors:
Seung Yeob Nam;Dongwon Kim;Jeongeun Kim
Affiliations:
Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, Gyeongbuk, Korea;Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, Gyeongbuk, Korea;UI Prototype Lab, Mobile Handset R&D Center, LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company, Seoul, Korea
Venue:
IEEE Communications Letters
Year:
2010

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Abstract

In this letter, an enhanced version of Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) is proposed to prevent ARP poisoning-based Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attacks. The proposed mechanism is based on the following concept. When a node knows the correct Media Access Control (MAC) address for a given IP address, if it retains the IP/MAC address mapping while that machine is alive, then MITM attack is impossible for that IP address. In order to prevent MITM attacks even for a new IP address, a voting-based resolution mechanism is proposed. The proposed scheme is backward compatible with existing ARP and incrementally deployable.