Re: IP spoofing vs tcp wrappers and netacl

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> Christopher Klaus says:
> > Probably the best way to prevent IP spoofing attacks is to turn off all
> > ip-based authenication services, ie rsh, rlogin are the main ones.
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> Insufficient. If you can see at least part of the packet stream, you
> can session-steal. This makes a mockery of things like S/Key.
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> Perry

Umm, to session steal (rather than hijack a connection as it is formed),
I believe you need to `guess' ACK numbers for both directions of the TCP
connection...ie if you can already see the packets whizzing by, then you
are in a good position to steal a session...

darren

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