RE: TCP vs UDP II

["Schouten, Diederik (Diederik)" <dschout () lucent com>]

> Dear list:
> It's possible that a intruder could take active part of a TCP 
> connection after this was established?
> In UPD I know this is true because is a connectionless 
> protocol. But I have doubts about TCP.

Depending on the location of the attacker this would indeed be possible.

He/She's either needs to be able to trace the connection or be able to guess
values like port numbers, fragment ID's, timestamps etc.

But it is definitly possible.

Greetings,

        Diederik