Security Assessment of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)

http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-tcpm-tcp-security-01.txt

TCP Maintenance and Minor F. Gont
Internet-Draft February 19, 2010

This document contains a security assessment of the specifications of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), and of a number of mechanisms and policies in use by popular TCP implementations. Additionally, it contains best current practices for hardening a TCP implementation.

It is a derivative of the CPNI TCP-security document published last year:
http://www.cpni.gov.uk/Docs/tn-03-09-security-assessment-TCP.pdf

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