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Handling of TCP ACK throttling
draft-lvelvindron-ack-throttling-03

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (individual)
Author Loganaden Velvindron
Last updated 2019-03-25 (Latest revision 2018-09-11)
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This Internet-Draft is no longer active. A copy of the expired Internet-Draft can be found at:
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-lvelvindron-ack-throttling-03.txt

Abstract

The functionality provided by the TCP ACK throttling mechanism can be exploited as a side channel vulnerablity to terminate connections between two arbitrary hosts and inject data in the communication stream.

Authors

Loganaden Velvindron

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