TRAP: A Three-way handshake server for TCP connection establishment

Fu Hau Hsu, Yan Ling Hwang, Cheng Yu Tsai, Wei Tai Cai, Chia Hao Lee, Kai Wei Chang

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Abstract

Distributed denial of service attacks have become more and more frequent nowadays. In 2013, a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack was launched against Spamhaus causing the service to shut down. In this paper, we present a three-way handshaking server for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection redirection utilizing TCP header options. When a legitimate client attempted to connect to a server undergoing an SYN-flood DDoS attack, it will try to initiate a three-way handshake. After it has successfully established a connection, the server will reply with a reset (RST) packet, in which a new server address and a secret is embedded. The client can, thus, connect to the new server that only accepts SYN packets with the corrected secret using the supplied secret.

Original languageEnglish
Article number358
JournalApplied Sciences (Switzerland)
Volume6
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - 16 Nov 2016

Keywords

  • DDoS
  • Netfilter
  • SYN flood attack
  • TCP
  • TCP options
  • Three-way handshake

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