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InfiniBand Fabric and Userland Attacks

InfiniBand Fabric and Userland Attacks (PDF, 1.94MB)Published: 18 Oct, 2012
Created by:
Aron Warren

For almost a decade InfiniBand Architecture (IBA) has become a networking choice amongst the Top 500 High Performance Computing Clusters of the world because of the lower cost, higher throughput, and lower latency which are better than Ethernet offerings. Some of the historical Ethernet security issues, such as Media Access Control (MAC) address spoofing, have been addressed in InfiniBand from the initial InfiniBand specifications. While MAC address spoofing is not directly replicable in InfiniBand, it is reinvented in this paper in the form of Global Unique ID (GUID) spoofing.