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RFC 3514
Title: The Security Flag in the IPv4 Header
Author(s): S. Bellovin
Status: Informational
Date: 1 April 2003
Mailbox: bellovin@acm.org
Pages: 6
Characters: 11211
Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None
I-D Tag: draft-bellovin-evilbit-02.txt
URL: ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3514.txt
Firewalls, packet filters, intrusion detection systems, and the like
often have difficulty distinguishing between packets that have
malicious intent and those that are merely unusual. We define a
security flag in the IPv4 header as a means of distinguishing the two
cases.
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