Re: [MEXT] Energy consumption attacks
Julien Laganier <[email protected]>
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Pars - How is this attack related to MIPv6? --julien On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 2:43 AM, Pars Mutaf <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I was wondering if solutions to energy consumption attacks on battery > powered mobile hosts would be of interest to IETF Mobile IPv6 community. > > The attack consists of sending frequent request packets e.g. SIP INVITE or > TCP SYN to a victim's home address. > > For example, experiments showed that the battery of a mobile phone with > 802.11 access can be remotely consumed in 3 hours (full battery). Attacks on > phones using an outdoor technology would result in more energy consumption > because of the longer distance to the base station. > > The victim becomes unusable. > > Regards, > > Pars > > _______________________________________________ > MEXT mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/mext > >