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Re: New tcp stack attack

From: Dries Schellekens (schellekens.driesgmail.com)
Date: Wed Oct 01 2008 - 09:47:57 CDT


On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Duncan Patton a Campbell
<campbellneotext.ca> 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...

Cheers,

Dries