Thwart eavesdropping attacks on network communication based on moving target defense

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Duohe Ma, Liming Wang, Cheng Lei, Zhen Xu, Hongqi Zhang, Meng Li

Published: 2016, Last Modified: 12 Jan 2026IPCCC 2016EveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY-SA 4.0
Abstract: This paper addresses mainly the problem of private data protection in network communication against eavesdropping attacks. As this kind of attacks is stealthy and untraceable, it is barely detectable for those feature detection or static configuration based passive defense approaches. We propose a Moving Target Defense(MTD) method by utilizing the protocol customization ability of Protocol-Oblivious Forwarding (POF). The novel full protocol stack randomization MTD can greatly increase the difficulty of implementing network eavesdropping attack and protect the privacy of the network communication process.