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From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] [SPAM] Re:  SCCS
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 11:59:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1909161157330.5352@grey.csi.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1909140824240.18105@aneurin.horsfall.org>

Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:
>
> I was thinking of an intermediate router (probably one that you never knew
> about) corrupting the checksum-less UDP packet, recalculating the Ethernet
> checksum, and your kernel happily accepting it; you now have an application
> that fails for some unknown reason.
>
> Never seen it in practice, but I've heard of it happening.

This paper has some examples:

http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2000/conf/paper/sigcomm2000-9-1.pdf

Tony.
-- 
f.anthony.n.finch  <dot@dotat.at>  http://dotat.at/
Forth, Tyne, West Dogger: Westerly 3 to 5 veering northwesterly 4 to 6. Slight
or moderate, becoming moderate or rough except in west Forth. Mainly fair.
Good.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-16 11:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-13 22:01 Norman Wilson
2019-09-13 22:30 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-09-16 10:59   ` Tony Finch [this message]
2019-09-16 12:11 ` Leah Neukirchen
2019-09-16 21:45   ` Dave Horsfall
2019-09-16 22:21     ` George Michaelson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-09-09  6:25 [TUHS] PWB vs Unix/TS Warner Losh
2019-09-10 15:16 ` Clem Cole
2019-09-11  3:53   ` Warner Losh
2019-09-11 15:36     ` Clem Cole
2019-09-11 18:11       ` Larry McVoy
2019-09-11 22:49         ` Dave Horsfall
2019-09-12  3:43           ` [TUHS] SCCS Larry McVoy
2019-09-12  4:20             ` George Michaelson
2019-09-12  4:31               ` [TUHS] [SPAM] SCCS Larry McVoy
2019-09-12 13:44                 ` Tony Finch
2019-09-13  4:11                   ` Larry McVoy
2019-09-13  5:54                     ` Dave Horsfall
2019-09-13  8:00                       ` Peter Jeremy
2019-09-13 15:23                         ` Larry McVoy
2019-09-13 21:36                         ` Dave Horsfall
2019-09-12  4:28             ` [TUHS] SCCS Jon Forrest
2019-09-12 16:45               ` Eric Allman
2019-09-12 17:29                 ` Clem Cole
2019-09-13  8:12                   ` emanuel stiebler
2019-09-13 21:11                     ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2019-09-13 21:17                       ` Larry McVoy
2019-09-13 23:03                         ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2019-09-14  1:55                           ` [TUHS] [SPAM] SCCS Larry McVoy

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