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

MikkelFJ <notifications@github.com> Fri, 30 November 2018 21:23 UTC

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Subject: Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Amplification attack using retry tokens and spoofed addresses (#2064)
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Here is a tricky variation:

The attacker initiates a handshake with a spoofed source IP in the hope of generating a retry. The attacker is sufficiently close to the target server that it can observe retry token. It is now able to share the token with many bots that all use the token to initiated spoofed validated handshakes toward the target. Even if the token is cryptographically encoding the target IP, it will not help, because the spoofed handshakes match the token.

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