Security Group Seminar, 1st February 1994

[ Last changed: 27th January 1997 ]

Speaker:

Prof. Roger Needham, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory

Date:

1st February

Place:

Room TP4, Computer Laboratory

Title:

DETECTING DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACKS

Denial of Service is a cinderella subject in security, since it is often supposed that there is not a lot that can usefully be said about it. There is very little literature in comparison with the huge amount published on confidentiality and authenticity. Some recent consulting work shows that there are things that can be said, and I shall present some of them using a suitably sanitised example.