[Ffmpeg-devel] SVN challenge response authentication weaknesses

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 05:22:57PM +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 10:27 +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > yes, i fully agree, still its an interresting excercise to see where my
> > custom scheme fails, you already found one big flaw (the seq num overhead)
> > can you find another in my new system? :)
> 
> Your new system doesn't have any redundancy in the data stream and so
> cannot detect modifications. It might be hard to change a block to a

you could add a checksum to each messages (not packet) to protect against
that ...

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