Who gives a shit if a script kiddie gets his box rebooted for doing something he shouldnt be doing in the first place. This looks like an active defense, and I would definitely like to see the results if you finish your project brian!
--- ascii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brian Micek wrote: > > Please lets forget about this thread because its > going nowhere and once > > again, I apologize about all this spam. > > yeah, i love BOFH : ) but the argue about cpu and > bandwith waste is real > > don't care who say you can't send random data on > request, we are free to > reply what we want on a request (also some ascii > p*rn is a good idea) > > if you are using tcpd consider to do something like > catting some random > data to a file and then stream the file (no disk i/o > since linux has > caching, low cpu usage) > > remember also you are sending some of your precious > *true* random data > to the bad guy (i'm not able to exploit or predict > the next random bit > but i heard somebody on the globe is able to.. so be > paranoid :P ) > > also the client will break the tcp stream on X null > chars or something > like that so use a file and close the connection at > some poit is good > to prevent bandwith waste (don't let the client > decide) > > an other thing to consider is ip spoofing, but who > cares : ) > > just my 901 bytes opinion.. > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com -- [email protected] mailing list
