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Security Assessment of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
draft-ietf-tcpm-tcp-security-02

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This is an older version of an Internet-Draft whose latest revision state is "Expired".
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Author Fernando Gont
Last updated 2011-01-20 (Latest revision 2010-02-19)
RFC stream Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
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Abstract

This document contains a security assessment of the specifications of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), and of a number of mechanisms and policies in use by popular TCP implementations. Additionally, it contains best current practices for hardening a TCP implementation.

Authors

Fernando Gont

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