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	Title		: DoS vulnerability of TCP by acknowledging not received segments
	Author(s)	: A. Azcorra
	Filename	: draft-azcorra-tsvwg-tcp-blind-ack-dos-00.txt
	Pages		: 13
	Date		: 2004-2-5
	
TCP relies in communication peers to implement congestion control by
   hosts voluntary limiting their own data rate. Nevertheless this
   assumption introduces unsolved DoS attack opportunities.

   A DoS attack can be easily performed by a host that acknowledges TCP
   segments not yet received (maybe even not sent).

   This document presents and briefly describes the problem, already
   identified and pointed before, but also shows than it can be easily
   performed (with very interesting results) and proposes some
   server-side modifications to TCP stack in order to make this attack
   more dificult to perform.

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