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Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Amplification attack using retry tokens and spoofed addresses (#2064)

Christian Huitema <notifications@github.com> Fri, 30 November 2018 21:47 UTC

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Subject: Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Amplification attack using retry tokens and spoofed addresses (#2064)
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@mikkelfj , this suggestion is already in the spec. The problem is that a connection attempt will trigger several packets towards the spoofed address, which is an attack amplification mechanism.

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