TY - GEN
T1 - FolketID: A Decentralized Blockchain-Based NemID Alternative Against DDoS Attacks
AU - Chiu, Wei Yang
AU - Meng, Weizhi
AU - Li, Wenjuan
AU - Fang, Liming
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments. This work was partially supported by H2020 CyberSec4Europe and H2020 DataVaults.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2022/11
Y1 - 2022/11
N2 - Electronic Identity (eID) is a solution toward solving the identity problem when deploying e-Government. Such solution should not only be secure, but also have to be robust enough under adversarial conditions. In Denmark, NemID is a digital eID used to log into public websites, for online banking and many digital services. However, it suffers from some security threats such as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. In 2013, a tremendous DDoS attack over NemID caused chaos in Danish society, people found themselves out-of-reach to many services. Focused on this threat, we develop FolketID, a blockchain-based NemID alternative against DDoS attacks. The DDoS mitigation is achieved by not only utilizing its powerful data distribution ability, but also exploiting the economy system in blockchain. It particularly takes use of the transaction fees to effectively prevent DDoS attacks. In the evaluation, our experimental results demonstrate the viability and effectiveness of FolketID in defeating DDoS attacks.
AB - Electronic Identity (eID) is a solution toward solving the identity problem when deploying e-Government. Such solution should not only be secure, but also have to be robust enough under adversarial conditions. In Denmark, NemID is a digital eID used to log into public websites, for online banking and many digital services. However, it suffers from some security threats such as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. In 2013, a tremendous DDoS attack over NemID caused chaos in Danish society, people found themselves out-of-reach to many services. Focused on this threat, we develop FolketID, a blockchain-based NemID alternative against DDoS attacks. The DDoS mitigation is achieved by not only utilizing its powerful data distribution ability, but also exploiting the economy system in blockchain. It particularly takes use of the transaction fees to effectively prevent DDoS attacks. In the evaluation, our experimental results demonstrate the viability and effectiveness of FolketID in defeating DDoS attacks.
KW - Blockchain technology
KW - DDoS attack
KW - e-Government
KW - Identity management
KW - NemID
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85142715022&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-20917-8_15
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-20917-8_15
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
AN - SCOPUS:85142715022
SN - 9783031209161
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 210
EP - 227
BT - Provable and Practical Security - 16th International Conference, ProvSec 2022, Proceedings
A2 - Ge, Chunpeng
A2 - Guo, Fuchun
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 16th International Conference on Provable and Practical Security, ProvSec 2022
Y2 - 11 November 2022 through 12 November 2022
ER -