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WRAPS: Denial-of-service defense through web referrals

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Wang, XF; Reiter, MK
Published in: Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems
December 1, 2006

The web is a complicated graph, with millions of websites interlinked together. In this paper, we propose to use this web sitegraph structure to mitigate flooding attacks on a website, using a new web referral architecture for privileged service ("WRAPS"). WRAPS allows a legitimate client to obtain a privilege URL through a click on a referral hypherlink, from a website trusted by the target website. Using that URL, the client can get privileged access to the target website in a manner that is far less vulnerable to a DDoS flooding attack. WRAPS does not require changes to web client software and is extremely lightweight for referrer websites, which eases its deployment. The massive scale of the web sitegraph could deter attempts to isolate a website through blocking all referrers. We present the design of WRAPS, and the implementation of a prototype system used to evaluate our proposal. Our empirical study demonstrates that WRAPS enables legitimate clients to connect to a website smoothly in spite of an intensive flooding attack, at the cost of small overheads on the website's ISP's edge routers. © 2006 IEEE.

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Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems

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1060-9857

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December 1, 2006

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Wang, X. F., & Reiter, M. K. (2006). WRAPS: Denial-of-service defense through web referrals. In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (pp. 51–60). https://doi.org/10.1109/SRDS.2006.48
Wang, X. F., and M. K. Reiter. “WRAPS: Denial-of-service defense through web referrals.” In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, 51–60, 2006. https://doi.org/10.1109/SRDS.2006.48.
Wang XF, Reiter MK. WRAPS: Denial-of-service defense through web referrals. In: Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems. 2006. p. 51–60.
Wang, X. F., and M. K. Reiter. “WRAPS: Denial-of-service defense through web referrals.” Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, 2006, pp. 51–60. Scopus, doi:10.1109/SRDS.2006.48.
Wang XF, Reiter MK. WRAPS: Denial-of-service defense through web referrals. Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems. 2006. p. 51–60.

Published In

Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems

DOI

ISSN

1060-9857

Publication Date

December 1, 2006

Start / End Page

51 / 60