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on May 13, 2012
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Microsoft Funded Startup Aims to Kill BitTorrent T...
To reset a connection you have to know the entire 5-tuple, which they don't.
rwmj
on May 13, 2012
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Don't you also need to know the sequence number? That's why those "TCP killers" work as a MITM attack. The 5-tuple is probably guessable, since the peers talk to each other and the tracker.
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