Big debate over small packets

Thursday, 8 September 2005, 1:14 PM EST

Fernando Gont is nothing if not tenacious.

Earlier this year, the Argentinian researcher highlighted several attacks that could disrupt network connections using the Internet control message protocol, or ICMP, and proposed four changes to the structure and handling of network-data packets that would essentially eliminate the risk.

By Robert Lemos at The Register.

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