• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.115-119
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• 2007

The IPv6 protocol provides the method to automatically generate an address of a node without additional operations of administrators, Before the generated address is used, the duplicate address detection (DAD) mechanism is required in order to verify the address. However, during the process of verification of the address, it is possible for a malicious node to send a message with the address which is identical with the generated address, so the address can be considered as previously used one; although the node properly generates an address, the address cannot be used. In this paper, we present a strong scheme to perform the DAD mechanism based on hash functions in IPv6 networks. Using this scheme, many nodes, which frequently join or separate from wireless networks in public domains like airports, terminals, and conference rooms, can effectively generate and verify an address more than the secure neighbor discovery (SEND) mechanism.