Re: Recent Attacks

From: Ge' Weijers (ge@progressive-systems.com)
Date: Fri Feb 18 2000 - 16:08:03 PST

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    On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 01:16:54AM -0800, Philip J. Koenig wrote:
    > Seems to me that the packet-authentication aspect of IPv6
    > would go a long way toward making sure you can track the
    > source of packets too.  
    
    But IKE (IPSEC's key exchange component) has denial-of-service
    problems of its own. You can overload an IKE server easily. The
    end-result is the same: no Internet dialtone.
    
    Some proposals to mitigate IKE attacks do exist, but they all have
    drawbacks.
    
    Ge'
    
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