ES-ARP: An efficient and secure Address Resolution Protocol

Author

Ataullah, Md ; Chauhan, Naveen

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Nat. Inst. of Technol., Hamirpur, India

fYear

2012

fDate

1-2 March 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) is used by computers to map logical addresses (IP) to physical addresses (MAC). However ARP is an all trusting protocol and is stateless which makes it vulnerable to many ARP cache poisoning attacks such as Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) and Denial of service (DoS) attacks. These flaws result in security breaches thus weakening the appeal of the host for exchange of sensitive data. There have been several solutions, proposed to solve this problem. We have analyzed that no solution offers a feasible solution. Hence, this paper presents an efficient and secure version of ARP that is able to cope up with all these types of attacks and is also a feasible solution. It is a stateful protocol, by storing the information of the Request frame in the ARP cache, to reduce the chances of various types of attacks in ARP. It is more efficient and secure by broadcasting ARP Reply frame in the network and storing related entries in the ARP cache each time when communication take place.

Keywords

computer network security; local area networks; protocols; ARP cache poisoning attacks; DoS; ES-ARP; IP; LAN; MAC; MITM; denial of service; efficient address resolution protocol; local area network; man-in-the-middle; map logical addresses; map physical addresses; secure address resolution protocol; trusting protocol; Broadcasting; Computer crime; IP networks; Media Access Protocol; Switches; ARP cache poisoning; DoS; MITM;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical, Electronics and Computer Science (SCEECS), 2012 IEEE Students' Conference on

Conference_Location

Bhopal

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1516-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SCEECS.2012.6184794

Filename

6184794