Hi, On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 06:08:02PM +0100, Jacek Wielemborek wrote: > Well the attacker could send a funny packet with a valid checksum, > encrypted and authenticated, right?
Indeed, but that would be someone we trust enough to let him talk to
our network - protects against Joe Random from the Internet crashing
our servers (or burning CPU resources trying to).
But yeah. Mistakes do happen :-) - so software shouldn't ever crash
on malformed packets.
gert
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