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Jason_Keating
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Nov 25, 2012

SSL_renegotiation_DOS_mitigation

Hi,     I've been looking at this https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.Print.aspx?Page=iRules.SSL_renegotiation_DOS_mitigation   I am confused by the iRule, where and when is hs_count ini...
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hoolio
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Nov 26, 2012
Nice catch. I updated the Codeshare example to set hs_count to 0 in CLIENT_ACCEPTED.

 

 

J, the reason you'd want to use this iRule is if you needed to support renegotiation (secure or insecure) but want to limit how many times a client can attempt to renegotiate the session ID to mitigate a DoS attack.

 

 

Aaron