Privacy and reliability by dispersive routing

Abstract

The traditional single (shortest) path routing paradigm leaves sessions vulnerable to a variety of security threats, especially eavesdropping. We propose to overcome this via dispersive routing, conducted over multiple paths. This increases significantly the costs inflicted on an attacker who wishes to eavesdrop or conduct DoS attack on network sessions by hijacking network links (or routers)1. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2005.