Re: THC SSL DOS tool released

[BH <lists () blackhat bz>]

> To make it more difficult to DOS servers using SSL, the protocol could
> somehow be modified to challenge the client with some useless** but
> cpu-heavy calculation before the server starts acting. Of course it
> must be something that does not involve heavy calculation at the
> server side, otherwise its just dumb. It's just an idea, and I do not
> know if and how this is possible at all.

One problem I can foresee with this is a way to scale this in a secure
manner. At one end of the spectrum you could have Grandma on her little
1.something ghz atom and on the other a mutli processor system or maybe
even GPU. It could take many years to crack for a GPU but then unless
ther is a way to scale that back to make it possible for the little atom
(without being able to use the GPU for the weaker challenge).

I have never actually looked at doing this and would be interested if
there is actually a way to do this without it being weak in some way.

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