From owner-freebsd-net Fri May 25 23:50:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-119.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.119]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4645237B422 for ; Fri, 25 May 2001 23:50:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C815766B21; Fri, 25 May 2001 23:50:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 23:50:11 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Kris Kennaway , net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Randomized IP ID patch Message-ID: <20010525235011.A44657@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20010525233811.A44455@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010526024644.I17514@superconductor.rush.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="KsGdsel6WgEHnImy" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010526024644.I17514@superconductor.rush.net>; from bright@rush.net on Sat, May 26, 2001 at 02:46:44AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --KsGdsel6WgEHnImy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 02:46:44AM -0400, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Kris Kennaway [010526 02:38] wrote: > > A while back I posted a version of this which was activated by sysctl, > > but people didn't like the per-packet performance overhead, so here's > > an updated version which uses a compile-time option. Please review; > > I'd like to commit this soon. > > >=20 > This seems pretty cool, I'm suprised you had people objecting to > a single check of whether or not to run an external function. > (I'd rather see this configurable while the system is running). Well, I could have done it by switching functions, but people also objected to the kernel bloat. To be fair, this is a pretty minor information leak, so many people will not care about it. Kris --KsGdsel6WgEHnImy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7D1IiWry0BWjoQKURAmt8AJ4kTf/Q5SWwaoWammCeS8hTVRPVEgCg440o cNn15qyyC1cIyV5iW08PV48= =LVbd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --KsGdsel6WgEHnImy-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message