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Date:      Fri, 13 Jun 1997 10:47:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Simon Shapiro <Shimon@i-Connect.Net>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sequence predictability (fwd)
Message-ID:  <XFMail.970613104732.Shimon@i-Connect.Net>
In-Reply-To: <199706062115.RAA12756@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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Hi Garrett Wollman;  On 06-Jun-97 you wrote: 
> <<On Fri, 06 Jun 1997 12:09:35 -0700 (PDT), Simon Shapiro
> <Shimon@i-Connect.Net> said:
> 
> > Good Idea.  /dev/rand, setup properly produces very good results.
> 
> It's also far too slow.
> 
> If I had a working kernel debugger at the moment (it's sick from
> version skew at the moment) or BPF (it's in use by something else) I
> could document precisely how the ISS changes.  In the current design,
> it is incremented by a random amount which averages to approximately
> the old rate.

OK, Bad Idea, then :-)

I think the true solution is elsewhere but will not voice my (politically
incorrect) idea in public.

Simon



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