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From: Lauri Laupmaa <mauri@aripaev.ee>
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Subject: TCP sequence prediction on freebsd
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 14:12:05 +0200 
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Hi

nmap reports something like:
> TCP Sequence Prediction: Class=random positive increments
>                          Difficulty=85682 (Worthy challenge)

is this tcp sequence prediction really an security issue ?

TIA

L.


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