DDoS in a way that when the receiver blocks it blocks a thread and either you can’t receive anything anymore on other connections. Or it will consume a ton of other threads which may all block.
Manfred > Am 17.12.2025 um 17:25 schrieb David McClain <[email protected]>: > > No, that would only cause a sync error, not a DOS. > >> On Dec 17, 2025, at 09:17, Stelian Ionescu <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Had I used prefix-length encoding then an attacker could shove a packet >>> with an enormous size and cause DOS by overwhelming my system resources. >>> Self-sync can prevent that by looking only for the magic separators at >>> known locations. >>> >> >> Then an attacker will cause DOS by simply ommitting the magic separator :D >> >> -- >> Stelian Ionescu >> >
