Re: Entropy in headers for connection identification at a stateful firewall

Töma Gavrichenkov <ximaera@gmail.com> Tue, 06 November 2018 09:38 UTC

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From: Töma Gavrichenkov <ximaera@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2018 16:37:47 +0700
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Subject: Re: Entropy in headers for connection identification at a stateful firewall
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On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 4:25 PM Mikkel Fahnøe Jørgensen
<mikkelfj@gmail.com> wrote:
> That is also what I meant: the middlebox could observe excess load on a specific 3- or 5- tuple without itself being overloaded.

Ah. Yes, this way changing to a new 5-tuple will help for some period
of time, though it makes QUIC a poor choice for e.g. video streaming
then :-(

> QUIC allows for multiple connections on the same 5-tuple

Well, sorry, this is up to the terminology. The purpose is just to
make sure an incoming packet is in fact a response to something
outgoing in the past. How many connections or streams go through those
packets is out of scope of the problem.