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RFC 5961: Improving TCP's Robustness to Blind In-Window Attacks

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TCP has historically been considered to be protected against spoofed off-path packet injection attacks by relying on the fact that it is difficult to guess the 4-tuple (the source and destination IP addresses and the source and destination ports) in combination with the 32-bit sequence number(s). A combination of increasing window sizes and applications using longer-term connections (e.g., H-323 or Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) [STANDARDS-TRACK]

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Document ID
RFC5961
Published
August 2010
Authors
A. Ramaiah; R. Stewart; M. Dalal
Status
PROPOSED STANDARD
Stream
IETF
Area
wit
Pages
19
Also known as
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Updated by:
RFC 9293

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