[82145] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Fri Jul 8 16:02:28 2005
In-Reply-To: <59A442ECD83D0F408ECEA3A84D3AE2EC03090BAD@bre2k26p>
Cc: "Alexei Roudnev" <alex@relcom.net>,
"NANOG list" <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 20:16:32 +0200
To: "Kuhtz, Christian" <christian.kuhtz@bellsouth.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 7-jul-2005, at 19:43, Kuhtz, Christian wrote:
>> If I'm on the same shared medium as you I can kill your SSL session
>> with one packet.
> Only if shared medium = vanilla CSMA/CD Ethernet or the like.
Or air.
If the medium isn't shared then if it's a thin pipe, it's subject to
DoS (I mean the type where you don't even need a zombie army) and if
it's a fat one, an attacker still gets to break the TCP sessions with
SSL running over them. (This requires a few million packets.)