[65304] in Cypherpunks
Re: Panix attack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Thu Sep 12 16:40:23 1996
To: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
Cc: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:34:04 EDT."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:21:10 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Simon Spero writes:
> This ensures that there's at least a traceable return address for the
> connection. Sort of like photuris cookies but without the forced RTT delay
Not really. The genius of the Photuris cookie is that it induces no
state at all in the responder, thanks to crypto tricks.
I agree, though, that you can harden hosts against TCP floods.
Perry
