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Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 19:43:49 +0200
From: "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@sitetronics.com>
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Subject: Re: new DoS technique (exploiting TCP retransmission timeouts)
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It's good to see countermeasures discussed in this text. At the same 
time, I wonder how long it will take for people to develop these 
countermeasures on a large scale.

--Devon

Mike Tancsa wrote:

> An interesting paper
>
> http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm2003/papers/p75-kuzmanovic.pdf
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>     ---Mike
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