Re: [Spud] [Privsec-program] Detecting and Defeating TCP/IP Hypercookie Attacks

Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com> Mon, 01 August 2016 06:34 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Spud] [Privsec-program] Detecting and Defeating TCP/IP Hypercookie Attacks
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On 7/30/16 9:59 PM, Tom Herbert wrote:
>
> No, it's not. In fact, exposing flow start/stop information is a good
> example of something that facilitates intrusiveness by middleboxes at
> the transport layer.
>
> The purpose of exposing this information is to allow network devices
> to track connections, but connection tracking in the network is
> fundamentally flawed since there is no requirement that all packets of
> a connection go any single network device (i.e. the Internet is packet
> switched not circuit switched).

Except that I will bet you that over 99.999% of connections do, and that
this is particularly sufficient for home routers.

Eliot