Re: [tcpm] Feedbackt on draft-ietf-tcpm-tcpsecure-13.txt

"Anantha Ramaiah (ananth)" <ananth@cisco.com> Tue, 18 May 2010 21:49 UTC

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From: "Anantha Ramaiah (ananth)" <ananth@cisco.com>
To: "Smith, Donald" <Donald.Smith@qwest.com>, tcpm@ietf.org, The IESG <iesg@ietf.org>
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Subject: Re: [tcpm] Feedbackt on draft-ietf-tcpm-tcpsecure-13.txt
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Smith, Donald [mailto:Donald.Smith@qwest.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 2:39 PM
> To: Anantha Ramaiah (ananth); 'tcpm@ietf.org'; 'The IESG'
> Subject: RE: [tcpm] Feedbackt on draft-ietf-tcpm-tcpsecure-13.txt
> 
> Won't this break syn cookies since the server doesn't keep 
> state on the original syn's sequence number?

Which mitigation are you referring to ?  IMO, none of them should have
any *new* problems with SYN cookies. For example take the case of SYN
mitigation, it increases the scope iof RFC 793 i.e, earlier RFC 793 was
sending RST if in window else send ACK, here we are saying send ACK in
all cases, this way you challenge the SYN in both the cases.

-Anantha