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Ironlink on July 26, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Need for Web UDP

Seems to me that one key difference would be that giving javascript access to UDP sockets easily enables a single browser to send huge amounts of traffic since there's no ACK to wait for. With anything based on TCP, the attacker at least has to put some effort in to achieve that.

IshKebab on July 27, 2017 [–]

You could easily design it so that you can only send UDP packets to hosts you already have a TCP connection with.

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