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Re: "trivial" changes to DNS (was: OpenNTPProject.org)


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 15:49:43 -0500

On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 13:35:00 -0600, Jimmy Hess said:

Then  the client's  UDP stack must  construct and send a  Hashcash   proof
of work,  of sufficient difficulty  based on the estimated query plus
response size,
up to the first full round trip;
  containing a message digest of the first UDP packet  the client will
send,  before sending the packet,  or it will be silently discarded.

An  out-of-band reply will come back to the claimed source,   that the
client souce IP:Port has to acknowledge within 5 packets.
Once the out-of-band reply is acknowledged,   the source is confirmed not
to be spoofed.

How is this any better than a TCP 3-packet handshake with syncookies?

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