[p2p-hackers] Error correcting codes to preventfailurein BitTorrent like systems?

[Enzo Michelangeli]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Saikat Guha" <sg266 at cornell.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 5:05 PM

On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 16:37 +0800, Enzo Michelangeli wrote:
[...]
>> ...but I can testify that a Sercom IP706ST once in my possession did
>> perform such "blind payload patch" for packets sent to the DMZ host.
>> Needless to say, it's been demoted to paperweight :-)
>
> FWIW, we looked for such behavior in NATs w.r.t TCP packets
> (http://nutss.net/stunt-results.php). We couldn't find any evidence of
> TCP data mangling in the 120 or so NATs that we tested. Would it be
> possible to run the STUNT NAT test from behind your paperweight? :-D

It'll take a few days... But anyway the mangling I observed happened on
UDP packets, rather than TCP. (I cannot exclude that TCP was affected as
well, though).

Enzo