Worm Propagation Simulation (paper)

[Tom <tom () lemuria org>]

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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