Taking aim at denial-of-service attacks

-Graduate students from Carnegie Mellon University on Monday proposed two methods aimed at greatly reducing the effects of Internet attacks. In two papers presented at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy here, the graduate students suggested simple modifications to network software that could defeat denial-of-service attacks and that could be implemented in the current protocol used by the Internet.

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Hi Pieter,

Still think Steve Gibson's approach is lower on resources and easier to implement:

http://grc.com/r&d/nomoredos.htm

Dolf