Mathematical structure of simple defensive network deceptions

Computers and Security

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 520-528

  Cohen, Fred ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER CRIME; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DATA PRIVACY; INTELLIGENT NETWORKS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

DECEPTIVE DEFENSE NETWORKS;

SECURITY OF DATA;

EID: 0033632751     PISSN: 01674048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4048(00)06026-0     Document Type: Note

References (3)

1. [Cohen, F., 1998.] A Note on the Role of Deception in Information Protection, Computers & Security, Vol 17, No. 6, 1998, pp. 483-506. (This paper concentrates on the role of deception in information protection, and as such, its main focus is on addressing different perspectives on deception. We begin by examining the historical use of deception for information protection in more depth, consider the moral issues associated with the use of deception for protection, and examine techniques for deceptive defence and complexities in their use. Next we describe theoretical issues behind the use of deception in the Deception ToolKit (DTK), practical results on the use of DTK in the Internet and in an experimental environment, and notions about the widespread use of DTK and similar tools. Finally, we summarize results, draw conclusions, and discuss further work.)
2. [Shannon, C., 1948.] A Mathematical Theory of Communications, Bell Systems Technical Journal, Vol. 3, No. 27, 1948. (This is perhaps the most famous and seminal paper in the information sciences. In this paper, Shannon described the first practical syntactic information theory, which formed the basis for a vast array of developments in the information sciences from the design of computer instruction sets to the integrity of satellite communications and beyond. It is hard to overestimate the impact of this work.)
3. [Shannon, C., 1949.] Communications Theory of Secrecy Systems, Bell Systems Technical Journal, 1949, pp. 656-715. (In this paper, Shannon applied his information theory to breaking all of the known ciphers up to that date and provided a proof that the only theoretically unbreakable cryptosystem was the so-called perfect cipher. This paper also introduced the concepts of diffusion and confusion, and introduced the concept of work load which is the basis for using imperfect cryptosystems today.)