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Re: [TLS] add challenge in TLS v1.3 to prevent DDOS attack?

"Bingzheng Wu" <bingzheng.wbz@alibaba-inc.com> Mon, 08 June 2015 10:59 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] add challenge in TLS v1.3 to prevent DDOS attack?
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I talked about TLS level DDOS only, but not TCP level DDOS. I think they focus on different aspects.

I learned about the hash way of challenge from the link in Ilari's mail. It's better than my proposed way indeed. thanks.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: CodesInChaos [mailto:codesinchaos@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 08, 2015 5:17 PM
> To: Bingzheng Wu
> Cc: tls
> Subject: Re: [TLS] add challenge in TLS v1.3 to prevent DDOS attack?
> 
> Not sure if this is a practical concern. If an attacker has so many computers/IPs
> that IP blacklisting doesn't help anymore (TCP makes IP spoofing difficult), they
> probably could simply flood the victim's connection instead of relying on
> expensive crypto operations for DoS.
> 
> Your proposed proof-of-work doesn't look ideal either, since the cost is fixed at
> a low value. Some variant of hashcash is clearly better.

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