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Consider DoS protection mechanisms #25

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peacekeeper opened this issue Dec 19, 2014 · 0 comments
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Consider DoS protection mechanisms #25

peacekeeper opened this issue Dec 19, 2014 · 0 comments
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Problem 1: Incoming XDI messages are XDI graphs that need to be parsed before they can be processed. Attackers may construct XDI messages that maximize load on the parser.

Problem 2: Signature validation is complex. An XDI graph has to be normized before its signature can be computed.
@peacekeeper peacekeeper added this to the release-0.7 milestone Dec 19, 2014
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@peacekeeper peacekeeper modified the milestones: release-0.7, release-0.8 Jun 9, 2015
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