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

Mikkel Fahnøe Jørgensen <mikkelfj@gmail.com> Tue, 06 November 2018 09:25 UTC

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Subject: Re: Entropy in headers for connection identification at a stateful firewall
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On 6 November 2018 at 10.22.40, Töma Gavrichenkov (ximaera@gmail.com) wrote:

Well, like I said, there wouldn't be any problem with the middlebox,
it would be able to handle virtually any possible load. It's the
client who wouldn't.



That is also what I meant: the middlebox could observe excess load on a
specific 3- or 5- tuple without itself being overloaded.