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rfc-1948

Defending Against Sequence Number Attacks

S. Bellovin
date1996-05 streamLegacy statusINFORMATIONAL pages6 canonicalhttps://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1948 doi10.17487/RFC1948 errataview
IP spoofing attacks based on sequence number spoofing have become a serious threat on the Internet (CERT Advisory CA-95:01). While ubiquitous crypgraphic authentication is the right answer, we propose a simple modification to TCP implementations that should be a very substantial block to the current wave of attacks. This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.

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