full-disclosure - Worm Propagation Simulation (paper)

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Message-ID: <20031022151313.A2910@lemuria.org>
From: tom at lemuria.org (Tom)
Subject: Worm Propagation Simulation (paper)

Greetings -

After several cycles through peer-review, I have decided to publish my
paper on simulation of worm propagation algorithms.

This was started as a means to find out just how bad things could in
theory become. It concentrates on the propagation only, I do not
discuss specific exploits and include only a small discussion of
possible payloads.

You can find it at http://web.lemuria.org/security/WormPropagation.pdf

Some results:
Very fast worms (aka flash worms) are possible. Wide-spread destruction
of host systems is possible and will not slow down a properly written
worm, contrary to popular opinion. I also show how such worms could
work (discussion, no code).

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