http://spacehunt.info/2006/06/09/man-in-the-middle-is-an-understatement Angry rants on this unjust world Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:03:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 http://spacehunt.info/2006/06/09/man-in-the-middle-is-an-understatement#comment-2236 Matasano Chargen » Improving The Great Firewall of China Thu, 06 Jul 2006 22:45:00 +0000 http://spacehunt.info/2006/06/09/man-in-the-middle-is-an-understatement#comment-2236 [...] A synopsis: one mechanism (but not the only one) used by the PRC terminates connections with injected TCP RST packets. Your 15 second TCP refresher: RST packets abort connections, ostensibly because something has gone wrong. A host that receives an RST matching (by addresses and ports) a live connection —- with valid sequence numbers —- will close the connection. A man-in-the-middle can use RST packets to kill an unfavorable connection. The PRC uses RST packets to kill web requests about Falun Gong (among other things). [...] […] A synopsis: one mechanism (but not the only one) used by the PRC terminates connections with injected TCP RST packets. Your 15 second TCP refresher: RST packets abort connections, ostensibly because something has gone wrong. A host that receives an RST matching (by addresses and ports) a live connection —- with valid sequence numbers —- will close the connection. A man-in-the-middle can use RST packets to kill an unfavorable connection. The PRC uses RST packets to kill web requests about Falun Gong (among other things). […]

]]> http://spacehunt.info/2006/06/09/man-in-the-middle-is-an-understatement#comment-1922 Almerick Esmail Fri, 23 Jun 2006 06:43:05 +0000 http://spacehunt.info/2006/06/09/man-in-the-middle-is-an-understatement#comment-1922 Alpha and I have a new terms called "KO-in-the-middle" for a long time... Alpha and I have a new terms called “KO-in-the-middle” for a long time…

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