Neat News 2773 (added 2023-08-04)
New defence against denial of service attacks
© Everaldo Coelho and YellowIcon [LGPL]
Denial of service attacks flood a service with numerous queries so that genuine requests cannot processed any more. Detection often relies on thresholds which may cut out genuine requests when the genuine demand rises strongly. A new better test is based on the concept of entropy, more precisely a mismatch of the entropy between target addresses and source addresses.
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