Stefan Savage : Hacking the TCP stack

["R. DuFresne" <dufresne () sysinfo com>]

Has anyone looked at the work described here:

http://www.arstechnica.com/reviews/2q00/networking/networking-3.html#three_other_attacks";>
Ars Technica: Network Services in an Uncooperative
Environment:


   I. Sting: a new network measurement tool
   II. Coping with competing interests
        1) Hacking the TCP stack.
        2) Three new attacks
            a. Ack division
            b. DupACK spoofing
            c. Optimistic acking
   III. Defeating Distributed Denial of Service Attacks

The original work can be found at:

http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/savage/


Thanks,


Ron DuFresne
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