This week I have found a few solutions that could possibly help avoid or prevent telephony and denial of service attacks. The first option is using a Virtual Private Network (VPN) while on a network that is public. A VPN connects whatever device to the server that is in a different location and people will not able to see what you are looking at since all your information on your device is connected to a different location. This allows people to become anonymous while it is activated. There some VPN’s that are free and some that cost money monthly or yearly. The second option is using IP Fragmentation to make the data packets smaller when a call is active. IP Fragmentation is when any type of datagram is made smaller since it too large due to not meeting the requirements of a maximum transmission unit so if a UDP packets were 200 bytes and the requirements are 180 bytes then it will be cut in half or anything smaller than 180 bytes. The final option is having an application that will alert people when there are ARP attacks happening in a wireless network. An application called Xarp is the app I found that does the job. If a person is able to detect any ARP attacks then they will be able to avoid getting attacked by leaving the network or using LTE. Since most of these solutions are a bit impossible to do at the school I have been implementing them at my own space since the router that I use only has a few devices in use of it. I cannot believe there is only a week left and all this research that has been done will be presented very soon.
This site will be about my experience at Making Future Communities REU at UNC Charlotte. I will explain how each weeks goes, what I learned, and what else I hope to learn.
Jalen Young's REU Experience 