LiHA: Worse is Better for Lightweight Hash-based Source Authentication

Reported by arXiv cs.CR (Negin Dehghanchaleshtori, Homit Dalia, Himanshu Chandra, Rohan Tripathi, Marc E. Fiuczynski, Richard P. Martin)

Summary by Cyber Security News2 Nov 2026, 06:00 CET

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arXiv:2610.40928v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The omission of source IP authentication remains a fundamental vulnerability in the Internet. Existing approaches rely on routing plausibility, topology assumptions, per-flow state, or wide deployment. These requirements have kept strong source authentication out of the data plane.

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