Mark Delany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Sure, an attacker could spawn a lot of short-lived processes in an attempt
> > to cause a collision in mail delivery, but they'd need local access to the
> > box to even have a shot at it.
>
> Really? What if I connect to your SMTP port - does that cause a fork on your
> system?
[as this topic slowly drifts from almost-on-topic to not-even-close...]
Yes. But even with all the network bandwidth in the world, with syn cookies,
you're not going to be able to create the four billion connections per
second that would be required to even have a shot at it.
Charles
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