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by dboreham 828 days ago
Yes but this is nothing to do with cryptography per se. Most servers can be taken down by a client that finds some expensive operation it can get executed, then sends a bunch of same. The solution implies a generic per-client or per-request resource limit mechanism (which in my experience some systems have, but most do not). This is probably the only good thing about "serverless"/lambda type solutions.
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Sure, but an expensive operation sitting as a time bomb within some TLS configs is more easily exploitable than having to find some service specific exploit.