On Feb 8 2008, Matthew Toseland wrote: >> I realise the data wouldn't travel across every link because of the >> offer/accept mechanism, but it would still visit every node once, which >> is a decent multiplier for a DoS attack. > >Only if he can get requests through every node. As he can by for example >flooding a Frost KSK queue right now.
I'm probably misunderstanding how it works, but wouldn't a single success be forwarded to every node in the web, as each node offers the data to the peers it's tried as well as the peers from which it's received requests? Cheers, Michael
