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Re: [tcpm] ICMP attacks draft (issue 1): hard errors -> soft errors (in synchronized states)

Lloyd Wood <l.wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk> Fri, 30 September 2005 20:26 UTC

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On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Joe Touch wrote:

> Fernando Gont wrote:
> > At 03:36 p.m. 30/09/2005, Joe Touch wrote:
> ...
> >> > "The strength of  a chain is that of the weakest link", I mean.
> >>
> >> But TCP-antispoof explains that the chain is already sufficiently weak
> >> in many cases even if you try to fix ICMP.
> >
> > It's weak. But we are making it weaker unnecessarily.
>
> What's weaker than weak enough? (and why would we need to modify a core
> Internet protocol if it's still weak enough)?

Using bad rhetoric and word games against someone with English as a
second language is bad form.

Strengthening ICMP and TCP where reasonable and possible seem entirely
sensible to me and in line with the mandate of this workgroup.

Joe - you don't have to kill -everything- you hadn't thought of first,
and some of us would respect you more if you didn't.

L.

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