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		namibj on June 21, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SSH gets protection against side-channel attacks Tanking DDoS? Like, the more connections you can handle normally, the less filtering you need to do on incoming connections?

ryanlol on June 21, 2019 [–]

OpenSSHd does not “tank DDoS”, it’ll simply consume all resources available to it if attacked.

The only way to mitigate such an attack would be to drop it before it reaches the SSH daemon.

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