From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The git protocol and DoS
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 15:01:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4356C22F.2040304@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7voe5l2mvu.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
>
>>But once you're talking to a git-aware
>>SYN-flooder, I don't think a challenge-response makes it any better, since
>>a git-aware SYN-flooder would just be written to give the right response.
>
> I think Peter's point is that the one that can give the right
> response needs to read from the server to compute it, and at
> that point it is not a "SYN-flooder" anymore.
>
Right. It has been shown that requiring some effort on the part of the
client before the server spends work on it can greatly reduce the
capabilities of a limited-resource client to execute a DoS.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-19 22:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-19 20:00 The git protocol and DoS H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-19 20:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-19 20:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-19 21:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-19 21:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-19 21:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-19 21:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-19 22:01 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-10-19 22:20 ` Petr Baudis
2005-10-19 22:39 ` Tony Luck
2005-10-20 0:20 ` David Brown
2005-10-20 8:16 ` Andreas Ericsson
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