Hi,

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 06:08:02PM +0100, Jacek Wielemborek wrote:
> Well the attacker could send a funny packet with a valid checksum,
> encrypted and authenticated, right? 

Indeed, but that would be someone we trust enough to let him talk to
our network - protects against Joe Random from the Internet crashing
our servers (or burning CPU resources trying to).

But yeah.  Mistakes do happen :-) - so software shouldn't ever crash
on malformed packets.

gert

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