• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.11B
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• pp.979-986
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• 2006

DSTM is one of the 1Pv6/IPv4 transition mechanisms using IPv4-in-IPv6 tunneling for communication between IPv6 node with dual stack and Ipv4-only node. In DSTM, the DSTM server using the DHCPv6 is vulnerable to DoS attacks which can exhaust the IPv4 address pool. In this paper, an authentication model using a HRAA (Human Recognition Address Allocation) scheme was proposed to protect DHCP server against DoS attacks. The proposed authentication model in DSTM that uses an image file for verification is effective because only human can respond to the challenge for authenticated address allocation. The proposed model can be used anytime and anywhere in a DSTM domain, and is secure against DoS attacks.