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From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 01:32:40PM -0700, Dragos Ruiu wrote:
> Also keep in mind ports are predictable to varying degrees depending on
> the vendor or OS, which further reduces the brute force space you have to 
> go though without sniffing. 

This is exactly why I ported OpenBSD's TCP ephemeral port allocation
randomization to FreeBSD-CURRENT (although I asked Mike Silby to commit
it for me and take the blame if it broke :-).  It will also be MFC'd
shortly in time for 4.10-RELEASE.

Cheers,
-- 
Jacques Vidrine / nectar@celabo.org / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@freebsd.org