On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 07:06:41PM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > PS: i still would prefer to allow applications deal with this by having a > syncronous handshake listener (would could then count handshake frequency > and close the socket).
Expecting applications to do this would not be secure by default, and would result in a lot of cut-and-paste code. At minimum there should be a reasonable default implementation which does something sane, that an app could choose to manually override if there was a good reason for it. Matthew.