ON MITIGATING DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACKS

Resistance of denial of service attacks is a key security requirement in voting protocols. Acquisti protocol plays an important role in development of internet voting protocols and claims its security without strong physical assumptions. In this study firstly Acquisti protocol is modeled in extended applied pi calculus, and then resistance of denial of service attacks is proved with ProVerif. T...

One of the most serious problems faced by researchers studying eating disorders is denial of illness in individuals with anorexia nervosa. Importantly, the term "denial" not only has different meanings, but in the case of anorexia nervosa its very nature still remains obscure. It is not even known whether it is deliberate or unintentional. Denial of illness in anorexic patients has serious cons...

Biology teachers are accustomed to engaging individuals who do not accept biological evolution. Denial of evolution ranges from ignorance of the evidence to outright denial or distortion of data. The list of science denial topics has grown alarmingly over the years to include: HIV as the cause of AIDS, exaggeration of the health and environmental risks of genetically modified organisms, existen...

A new concept of global navigation based on Doppler measurements from a large low Earth orbit (LEO) constellation is investigated that has potential to serve as complement or backup satellite systems (GNSSs) provide and positioning services in GNSS denial environments. In this work, we investigate the LEO communication opportunity signals dynamic navigation, establish equations, derive main err...

BACKGROUND Internationally, in many healthcare systems financial pressure has led to the implementation of co-payments, private medical (extra) services and rationing. In Germany, members of statutory health insurances (SHIs) increasingly report the denial of medical services and the offer/demand of privately financed supplementary health services individual health services, (IHSs) in medical p...