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I'm not well-versed in the technical details of defending from DDOS, but unless it's a mathematical NP-complete problem, they have a chance.
by vixsomnis 12y ago
I'm not well-versed in the technical details of defending from DDOS, but unless it's a mathematical NP-complete problem, they have a chance.
- mirashii 12y agoHonestly, if you start by saying you're not well versed, how can you confidently make a statement about whether it is possible or not? Large scale DDOSes are usually the most damaging when they're high bandwidth (Layer 7 attacks can usually gradually be mitigated by well written firewall rules placed on the proximity of the network). When a DDOS is just maxing out the bandwidth coming into your network or sometimes even data center, no amount of clever algorithms can make your pipes bigger. For that, you need money. *edit fixed a minor typo
- vixsomnis 12y agoI'm not confident. I'm saying there could be a way to mitigate DDOS that we don't understand yet. It's unlikely, but possible.
- droopyEyelids 12y agoIt can be a weakness in a widely deployed, vital protocol and that would be technically impossible to fix- not because of the technology but because altering the protocol would either require everyone on the Internet to change their software, or it'd preclude certain types of communication, or both.
- Grue3 12y agoWhat does NP have to do with it? NP-problems are perfectly solvable, it's just that they take more than polynomial time to solve them relative to the size of the inputs. You were probably looking for something like "not computable" for when there is no possible algorithm to solve a problem.