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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2013
Angelos Stavrou, New York, NY (US);
Angelos D. Keromytis, New York, NY (US);
Angelos Stavrou, New York, NY (US);
Angelos D. Keromytis, New York, NY (US);
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for inhibiting attacks with a network are provided. In some embodiments, methods for inhibiting attacks by forwarding packets through a plurality of intermediate nodes when being transmitted from a source node to a destination node are provided, the methods comprising: receiving a packet at one of the plurality of intermediate nodes; determining at the selected intermediate node whether the packet has been sent to the correct one of the plurality of intermediate nodes based on a pseudo random function; and forwarding the packet to the destination node, based on the determining. In some embodiments an intermediate node is selected based on a pseudo random function. In some embodiments, systems and methods for establishing access to a multi-path network are provided.