FolketID: A Decentralized Blockchain-Based NemID Alternative Against DDoS Attacks

Wei Yang Chiu; Weizhi Meng; Wenjuan Li; Liming Fang

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-20917-8_15

FolketID: A Decentralized Blockchain-Based NemID Alternative Against DDoS Attacks

Wei Yang Chiu, Weizhi Meng^*, Wenjuan Li, Liming Fang

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Provable and Practical Security, ProvSec 2022
Publisher	Springer
Publication date	2022
Pages	210-227
ISBN (Print)	978-3-031-20916-1
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-031-20917-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20917-8_15
Publication status	Published - 2022
Event	16th International Conference on Provable and Practical Security - Nanjing, China Duration: 11 Nov 2022 → 12 Nov 2022

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Conference	16th International Conference on Provable and Practical Security
Country/Territory	China
City	Nanjing
Period	11/11/2022 → 12/11/2022

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Blockchain technology
DDoS attack
e-Government
Identity management
NemID

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Chiu, WY, Meng, W, Li, W & Fang, L 2022, FolketID: A Decentralized Blockchain-Based NemID Alternative Against DDoS Attacks. in Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Provable and Practical Security, ProvSec 2022. Springer, pp. 210-227, 16th International Conference on Provable and Practical Security, Nanjing, China, 11/11/2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20917-8_15

FolketID: A Decentralized Blockchain-Based NemID Alternative Against DDoS Attacks. / Chiu, Wei Yang; Meng, Weizhi; Li, Wenjuan et al.
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Provable and Practical Security, ProvSec 2022. Springer, 2022. p. 210-227.

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