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Date:      Sat, 5 May 2001 15:45:52 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>
Cc:        Lauri Laupmaa <mauri@inspiral.net>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ISN number prediction ?
Message-ID:  <20010505154552.A60002@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <3AF47E4A.4A54EB0C@math.missouri.edu>; from stephen@math.missouri.edu on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 05:27:22PM -0500
References:  <3AF46C50.640F6C20@inspiral.net> <3AF47E4A.4A54EB0C@math.missouri.edu>

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On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 05:27:22PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> Lauri Laupmaa wrote:
> >=20
> > Hi
> >=20
> > As this analysis http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html p=
oints
> > out FreeBSD 4 ISN number generation 'is not impressive' It seems to be
> > considerably weaker than linux-2.2's...
> >=20
>=20
> I remember that if you run the program nmap on your server with the
> right flags, that it will give its opinion on how good this is.
> But I don't remember the right sequence of flags to do this - anyone
> care to help me?

Please remember that this is a complicated issue which can't be easily
quantified with a single number; nmap can be used as a guide to
sequence number predictability, but it's not the whole story.

Kris

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