At 11:47 a.m. 01/10/2008, Dries Schellekens wrote:
> It seems to me the "problem" is with SYN cookies.
When I read the pseudo article, I had the impression that the server
does not have to implement SYN cookies. Their sockstress program uses
(client) SYN cookies to estabilish a lot of TCP connections with
minimal own resources...
Yes. This is in an unnecessarily-expensive naphta attack.
Kind regards,
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