Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods and apparatus for system having denial of services (DOS) resistant multicast
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Application No.: US15342549Application Date: 2016-11-03
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Publication No.: US10708298B2Publication Date: 2020-07-07
- Inventor: Hugh William Harney
- Applicant: Axiom, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US MD Columbia
- Assignee: Axiom, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Axiom, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MD Columbia
- Agency: Cooley LLP
- Main IPC: H04L12/18
- IPC: H04L12/18 ; H04L9/08 ; H04L29/06 ; H04L12/26 ; H04L29/12

Abstract:
In general, some embodiments described herein relate to using agile or dynamic addresses for multicasting that may be difficult or impossible for a malicious actor to predict. Such agile addresses may prevent a malicious actor from attacking a single static multicast address and may prevent the architecture of the multicast network from propagating the attack. Data sent to invalid (e.g., expired, revoked, and/or otherwise depreciated addresses) can be filtered out and dropped from the network. For example, a first group key associated with a first time period can be calculated based on a first shared secret and a second group key associated with a second time period can be calculated based on a second shared secret. At any given time at least one group key can be an accepted group key. When a multicast address includes a currently accepted group key, the data can be sent to a group.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170126734A1 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SYSTEM HAVING DENIAL OF SERVICES (DOS) RESISTANT MULTICAST Public/Granted day:2017-05-04
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