Bankrupting DoS Attackers Despite Uncertainty. (arXiv:2205.08287v1 [cs.CR])

On-demand provisioning in the cloud allows for services to remain available
despite massive denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Unfortunately, on-demand
provisioning is expensive and must be weighed against the costs incurred by an
adversary. This leads to a recent threat known as economic
denial-of-sustainability (EDoS), where the cost for defending a service is
higher than that of attacking.

A natural approach for combating EDoS is to impose costs via resource burning
(RB). Here, a client must verifiably consume resources -- for example, …

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