Re: spoofing the ethernet address

[xm () GEEKMAFIA DYNIP COM (Ex Machina [xm])]

On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Pauli Ojanpera wrote:

  [snip]

> What do you think, would it be possible, feasible or just nice
> to apply some kind of a public key authentification to the
> hardware addresses so that the address would be the 'challenge'
> I don't know if that is the right word even.

  [snip]

THe problem with a system like this is that by generating a large amount
of false requests, an attacker can bog down a victim by forcing them to
attempt many authentications. Instant DoS attack.

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