File formats:

Status:

PROPOSED STANDARD

Updated by:

RFC 9293

Authors:

A. Ramaiah
R. Stewart
M. Dalal

Stream:

IETF

Source:

tcpm (wit)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC5961

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Abstract

TCP has historically been considered to be protected against spoofed off-path packet injection attacks by relying on the fact that it is difficult to guess the 4-tuple (the source and destination IP addresses and the source and destination ports) in combination with the 32-bit sequence number(s). A combination of increasing window sizes and applications using longer-term connections (e.g., H-323 or Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) [STANDARDS-TRACK]

For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.