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Spread spectrum techniques including Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) and Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS) are used widely as a countermeasure against jamming attacks. In recent years, the DSSS based system has been used to achieve the anti-jamming systems without a pre-shared secret key. Delayed Seed-Disclosure DSSS (DSD-DSSS) is one of these systems that uses a random seed to generate multiple spreading codes to spread an original message. However, it discloses the information of a random seed in a way that it is vulnerable to the attacker. In this paper. we propose a new system that mainly focuses on concealing a random seed from the attacker by inserting it at a random position of a spreading message. We develop a new technique to identify the location of a random seed at a receiver by aligning between multiple received messages. Our evaluation and simulation results show that a receiver can obtain the position of a random seed, and then he can recover both a random seed then regenerating the spreading codes used to spread an original message.
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This work is supported by NSF under grants CNS-1527144 and CNS-1553304.
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Alagil, A., Liu, Y. (2019). Random Allocation Seed-DSSS Broadcast Communication Against Jamming Attacks. In: Chen, S., Choo, KK., Fu, X., Lou, W., Mohaisen, A. (eds) Security and Privacy in Communication Networks. SecureComm 2019. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 304. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37228-6_23
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