[MEXT] Energy consumption attacks

Pars Mutaf <pars.mutaf@gmail.com> Mon, 21 March 2011 09:42 UTC

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From: Pars Mutaf <pars.mutaf@gmail.com>
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Subject: [MEXT] Energy consumption attacks
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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