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Lack of support for UDP, to avoid TCP "man in the middle" attacks ... #17

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aspadistra opened this issue Oct 27, 2012 · 0 comments

aspadistra commented Oct 27, 2012

It would be nice if there was support for UDP, to avoid TCP "man in the middle" (MIM)attacks.

The BitTorrent protocol was initially 100% TCP.

However a web filtering company came up with a product that took advantage of TCP's MIM weakness.

The attack that was utilized (mainly sending 2 x "TCP hangup message" to "Alice" and "Bob") ... worked.

So now BT is mostly UDP.

I assume the same fix is needed here.

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