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An efficient null space-based Homomorphic MAC scheme against tag pollution attacks in RLNC

An efficient null space-based Homomorphic MAC scheme against tag pollution attacks in RLNC

Esfahani, Alireza ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2100-1569, Mantas, Georgios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8074-0417 and Rodriguez, Jonathan (2016) An efficient null space-based Homomorphic MAC scheme against tag pollution attacks in RLNC. IEEE Communications Letters, 20 (5). pp. 918-921. ISSN 1089-7798 (doi:10.1109/LCOMM.2016.2547420)

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Abstract

This letter proposes an efficient null space-based homomorphic message authentication code scheme providing resistance against tag pollution attacks in random linear network coding, where these attacks constitute a severe security threat. In contrast to data pollution attacks, where an adversary injects into the network corrupted packets, in tag pollution attacks the adversary corrupts (i.e. pollutes) tags appended to the end of the coded packets to prevent the destination nodes from decoding correctly. Our results show that the proposed scheme is more efficient compared to other competitive tag pollution immune schemes in terms of computational complexity.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: Impact Factor: 1.988
Uncontrolled Keywords: Network coding, Random linear network coding, Tag pollution attacks, Homomorphic MACs
Subjects: T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group: Faculty of Engineering & Science
Faculty of Engineering & Science > School of Engineering (ENG)
Last Modified: 30 May 2022 09:28
URI: http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/20091

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