Security » History » Revision 4
Revision 3 (Greg Burri, 10/14/2009 10:17 AM) → Revision 4/5 (Greg Burri, 11/09/2009 01:34 PM)
h1. Security This page lists some potential vulnerabilities and they solutions. h2. Ban system In case of flooding from a peer, its IP can be banned for a period of time. If it recurs then the ban time is extended. h2. A peer steals the peerID from an other peer. h2. h2. Flood of _IMAlive_ _HaveChunks_ message h3. Problem A peer can flood this message to a targeted peer with a different peerId for each message. h3. Solutions If two many _IMAlive_ message are sent from the same IP then the peer is banned.