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Re: Future ISAKMP Denial of Service Vulnerablity Needs Addressing
Paul Koning wrote:
>
> I have a concern about this notion of using puzzles as a way of
> addressing the DoS problem.
For that matter, the recent much-publicized distributed DoS attacks on
e-commerce servers point out that a similar attack on an IPsec server
would have no problem overcoming a puzzle-based defence. The multitude
of "zombie" attackers collectively has much more CPU power than any
attacked system.
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