From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 21:54:45 GMT
Subject: Re: The git protocol and DoS
Message-ID: <7voe5l2mvu.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510191410570.3369@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> But once you're talking to a git-aware 
> SYN-flooder, I don't think a challenge-response makes it any better, since 
> a git-aware SYN-flooder would just be written to give the right response.

I think Peter's point is that the one that can give the right
response needs to read from the server to compute it, and at
that point it is not a "SYN-flooder" anymore.