17 Dec
2025
17 Dec
'25
4:48 p.m.
DDoS in a way that when the receiver blocks it blocks a thread and either you can’t receive anything anymore on other connections. Or it will consume a ton of other threads which may all block. Manfred
Am 17.12.2025 um 17:25 schrieb David McClain <dbm@refined-audiometrics.com>:
No, that would only cause a sync error, not a DOS.
On Dec 17, 2025, at 09:17, Stelian Ionescu <sionescu@cddr.org> wrote:
Had I used prefix-length encoding then an attacker could shove a packet with an enormous size and cause DOS by overwhelming my system resources. Self-sync can prevent that by looking only for the magic separators at known locations.
Then an attacker will cause DOS by simply ommitting the magic separator :D
-- Stelian Ionescu