A novel address resolution process based on the seek secret man protocol

Address resolution is an important component of network communication. It determines the correspondence relationship between the IP and MAC of the host. Given the public destination of address resolutions, existing address resolution protocols are vulnerable to deception attacks, such as man-in-the-middle or DoS. Thus, a new security protocol called seek secret man (SSM) is proposed to address this drawback. Further, we utilize the SSM protocol as prototype and design a secure address resolution process called AR-SSM. This technique uses encryption technology to hide the destination of the address resolution, thereby preventing an attacker from launching a pointed attack. The experimental and comparison results show that in the presence of malicious nodes, the address cache pollution rate of AR-SSM is far lower than that of the traditional address resolution process.