Tracefilter: A Tool for Locating Network Source Address Validation Filters


Robert Beverly and Steven Bauer
USENIX Security Poster (USENIX Security 2007),
Boston, MA, August 2007

This research examines \emph{where} in the Internet source address validation filters are employed. We introduce tracefilter a new, novel filter location technique. Our initial results from live Internet measurements find 80% of filters within two hops of sources.

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