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ArpON - ARP handler inspection Original author(s) Andrea Di Pasquale "spikey" Initial release July 24, 2008 Stable release 2.7 / July 27, 2011 Development status Active Written in C Operating system Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD Platform UNIX-like, POSIX Available in English Type Network security License BSD Website http://arpon.sourceforge.net/ ArpON (ARP handler inspection) is a computer software project to improve network security.
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Motivation
The Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) has security issues. These include the Man In The Middle (MITM) attack through ARP Spoofing, ARP Cache Poisoning or ARP Poison Routing (APR) attacks. ArpON also blocks derived attacks including Sniffing, Hijacking, Injection, Filtering attacks and complex derived attacks, as: DNS Spoofing, WEB Spoofing, Session Hijacking and SSL/TLS Hijacking attacks.
This is possible using three kinds of anti ARP Spoofing techniques. ArpON requires a daemon in every host to be authenticated. It does not modify the classic ARP standard base protocol defined by IETF, but rather sets precise policies for static networks, dynamic networks and hybrid networks.
ArpON does not use a centralized server or encryption. It uses a cooperative authentication between the hosts based on the policies that all hosts with ArpON must respect. These policies allow exactly total protection by these attacks for all hosts that use ArpON.
Features
Some of ArpON's features are:
- Support for interfaces: Ethernet, Wireless
- Manages the network interface with: Unplug iface, Boot OS, Hibernation OS, Suspension OS
- Proactive based solution for connections: Point-to-Point, Point-to-Multipoint, Multipoint
- Type of authentication for host: Cooperative between the hosts
- Support for networks: Statically, Dynamically (DHCP), Hybrid network that is statically and dynamically
- Retro compatible with: Classic ARP standard base protocol by IETF
- Support of Gratuitous ARP request and reply for: Failover Cluster, Cluster with load-balancing, High-Availability (HA) Cluster
- Blocks the Man In The Middle (MITM) attack through: ARP Spoofing, ARP Cache Poisoning, ARP Poison Routing (APR)
- Three kinds of anti ARP Spoofing tecniques: SARPI or Static ARP Inspection, DARPI or Dynamic ARP Inspection, HARPI or Hybrid ARP Inspection
- Blocks the derived attacks: Sniffing, Hijacking, Injection, Filtering & co attacks
- Blocks the complex derived attacks: DNS Spoofing, WEB Spoofing, Session Hijacking, SSL/TLS Hijacking & co attacks
- Tested against: Ettercap, Cain & Abel, DSniff, Yersinia, scapy, netcut, Metasploit, arpspoof, sslsniff, sslstrip & co tools
Static ARP Inspection
SARPI[1] detects and blocks Man In The Middle (MITM) attack through ARP Spoofing, ARP Cache Poisoning, ARP Poison Routing (APR) attacks and it is countermeasure against these attacks and the derived attacks by it, which Sniffing, Hijacking, Injection, Filtering & co attacks for more complex derived attacks, as: DNS Spoofing, WEB Spoofing, Session Hijacking and SSL/TLS Hijacking & co attacks.
SARPI manages a list with static entries, for statically configured networks without DHCP.
Dynamic ARP Inspection
DARPI[2] detects and blocks Man In The Middle (MITM) attack through ARP Spoofing, ARP Cache Poisoning, ARP Poison Routing (APR) attacks and it is countermeasure against these attacks and the derived attacks by it, which Sniffing, Hijacking, Injection, Filtering & co attacks for more complex derived attacks, as: DNS Spoofing, WEB Spoofing, Session Hijacking and SSL/TLS Hijacking attacks.
DARPI manages uniquely a list with dynamic entries so can be used in dynamically configured networks having DHCP.
Hybrid ARP Inspection
HARPI[3] detects and blocks Man In The Middle (MITM) attack through ARP Spoofing, ARP Cache Poisoning, ARP Poison Routing (APR) attacks and it is countermeasure against these attacks and the derived attacks by it, which Sniffing, Hijacking, Injection, Filtering & co attacks for more complex derived attacks, as: DNS Spoofing, WEB Spoofing, Session Hijacking and SSL/TLS Hijacking & co attacks.
HARPI manages two lists simultaneously: a list with static entries and a list with dynamic entries for networks with statically and dynamically (DHCP) configured addresses.
References
- ^ http://arpon.sourceforge.net/algorithms.html#SARPI/
- ^ http://arpon.sourceforge.net/algorithms.html#DARPI/
- ^ http://arpon.sourceforge.net/algorithms.html#HARPI/
External links
Categories:- Computer network security
- Unix network-related software
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