Re: Potential DoS on Bittorrent

From: none (_at_(none))
Date: 04/06/05 

Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 08:06:33 +1200

Andrew Swallow wrote:
> Skybuck Flying wrote:
> [snip]

> I am surprised that the sub pieces do not have their own hash/CRC.
I believe that they do. Thats what i meant by a hash fail. A torrent can
have multiple files as well. The total size of a torrent can be as small
as a few megs but usually are 100's of megs and most are 1 gig or more.

I normally have between 2-8 clients that i download from and about 2
that i'm uploading too (Sometimes thay can be clients i'm also
downloading from). These clients are *very* dynamic in every sense.

Bit torrent was never designed for any kind of security unfortunately. I
would expect that there would quite a large number of potential DoS
attacks. But i don't that the one mentioned here is "practical" one.

Greg

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