Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 13:05:52 +0900 From: gnn@freebsd.org To: Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Clock slew vulnerability in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <m2oedqltcv.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com> In-Reply-To: <771770969.20050311034646@wanadoo.fr> References: <771770969.20050311034646@wanadoo.fr>
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At Fri, 11 Mar 2005 03:46:46 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > > > How vulnerable is FreeBSD to the recently announced technique for > individually identifying computers by the clock slew apparent in TCP > packets? If it is vulnerable to this, will there be any plans to > address the vulnerability? > I gather you mean this paper: http://www.caida.org/outreach/papers/2005/fingerprinting/ It's an interesting read. As to how vulnerable FreeBSD is to this I do not know nor do I know if we should bother to do anything about it. What, in particular are you worried about here? Also, if you consider this a security issue you should probably also include the security team in this discussion. Later, George
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