Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 17:15:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Simon Shapiro <Shimon@i-Connect.Net> Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sequence predictability (fwd) Message-ID: <199706062115.RAA12756@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.970606120935.Shimon@i-Connect.Net> References: <19970606091536.08429@tversu.ac.ru> <XFMail.970606120935.Shimon@i-Connect.Net>
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<<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. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick
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