Network and storage latency attacks to online trading protocols in the cloud

Claudio A. Ardagna, Ernesto Damiani

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Abstract

Online trading protocols enable participants to trade, barter, or sell goods and services over a private network or the global Net. Due to diversity of network and computational resources at their disposal, participants communicate and carry out their trading with different latencies. This scenario may give rise to latency attacks, where malicious parties (a.k.a. fast traders) exploit lower latency to attack trading protocols’ fairness and increase their income. With the advent of the cloud, the problem of identifying and preventing latency attacks is exacerbated by the fact that cloud providers and privileged users could collude to make latency attacks simpler and more effective. In this paper, we give an overview of network and storage latency attacks in multi-party trading protocols, focusing on cloud peculiarities and providing some empirical recommendations for protocol design.

Original languageBritish English
Title of host publicationOn the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems
Subtitle of host publicationOTM 2014Workshops - Confederated InternationalWorkshops: OTMAcademy,OTMIndustry Case Studies Program, C
EditorsRobert Meersman, Hervé Panetto, Alok Mishra, Rafael Valencia-García, António Lucas Soares, Ioana Ciuciu, Fernando Ferri, Georg Weichhart, Thomas Moser, Michele Bezzi, Henry Chan
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages192-201
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9783662455494
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
EventInternational Workshops: OTM Academy,OTM Industry Case Studies Program, C and TC, EI2N, INBAST, ISDE, META4eS, MSC, and OnToContent 2014 - Amantea, Italy
Duration: 27 Oct 201431 Oct 2014

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume8842
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceInternational Workshops: OTM Academy,OTM Industry Case Studies Program, C and TC, EI2N, INBAST, ISDE, META4eS, MSC, and OnToContent 2014
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityAmantea
Period27/10/1431/10/14

Keywords

  • Cloud
  • Multi-party online trading protocol
  • Network latency attack
  • Storage latency attack

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