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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. 

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 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.