Stefan Savage (born 1969) is an American computer science researcher, currently an Associate Professor in the Systems and Networking Group at the University of California San Diego. Savage is widely-cited in the areas of network worms and malware propagation, distributed denial of service (DDOS) mitigation and traceback, and wireless security. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington.
In 1999, Savage's research team published TCP C...
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Stefan Savage (born 1969) is an American computer science researcher, currently an Associate Professor in the Systems and Networking Group at the University of California San Diego. Savage is widely-cited in the areas of network worms and malware propagation, distributed denial of service (DDOS) mitigation and traceback, and wireless security. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington.
In 1999, Savage's research team published TCP Congestion Control with a Misbehaving Receiver, which uncovered protocol flaws in the TCP protocol that carries most Internet traffic. By exploiting these flaws, Savage proposed means for attackers to evade congestion control, allowing attackers to monopolize crowded network connections that would otherwise be shared by multiple users. This was the first paper to address congestion control evasion as a vulnerability, rather than as a theoretical design implication. That same year, Savage published "Sting", a paper and software tool that...
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