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From: Cillian Sharkey <cillian@baker.ie>
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> Another question that comes in to this is - how good a tool is nmap
> for evaluating the predictability of the sequence numbers we generate?
> 
> Ideally, I would like to do some improvements to our sequence number
> generation.
> 
> Thoughts?

What is OpenBSD like in this regard ?
AFAIR it has various algorithms for randomizing sequence numbers I think..
[Correct me if I'm wrong !]

- Cillian


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