annotate libtomcrypt/TODO @ 1790:42745af83b7d

Introduce extra delay before closing unauthenticated sessions To make it harder for attackers, introduce a delay to keep an unauthenticated session open a bit longer, thus blocking a connection slot until after the delay. Without this, while there is a limit on the amount of attempts an attacker can make at the same time (MAX_UNAUTH_PER_IP), the time taken by dropbear to handle one attempt is still short and thus for each of the allowed parallel attempts many attempts can be chained one after the other. The attempt rate is then: "MAX_UNAUTH_PER_IP / <process time of one attempt>". With the delay, this rate becomes: "MAX_UNAUTH_PER_IP / UNAUTH_CLOSE_DELAY".
author Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de_schampheleire@nokia.com>
date Wed, 15 Feb 2017 13:53:04 +0100
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f849a5ca2efc update to libtomcrypt 1.17 (with Dropbear changes)
Matt Johnston <matt@ucc.asn.au>
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1 for 1.18
f849a5ca2efc update to libtomcrypt 1.17 (with Dropbear changes)
Matt Johnston <matt@ucc.asn.au>
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2 - document new ECC functions
f849a5ca2efc update to libtomcrypt 1.17 (with Dropbear changes)
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3 - add test for new functions