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Date:      Sat, 5 May 2001 18:21:00 -0400
From:      Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org>
To:        Lauri Laupmaa <mauri@inspiral.net>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ISN number prediction ?
Message-ID:  <20010505182100.A56955@peitho.fxp.org>
In-Reply-To: <3AF46C50.640F6C20@inspiral.net>; from mauri@inspiral.net on Sun, May 06, 2001 at 12:10:41AM %2B0300
References:  <3AF46C50.640F6C20@inspiral.net>

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On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 12:10:41AM +0300, Lauri Laupmaa wrote:
> Hi
> 
> As this analysis http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html
> points out FreeBSD 4 ISN number generation 'is not impressive' It seems
> to be considerably weaker than linux-2.2's...
> 
> Any comments about this ?
> 

Perhaps you missed the recent FreeBSD security advisory:

http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=0+0+current/freebsd-security-notifications

and the CERT advisory:

http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html

which explain that this has been corrected...

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Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org
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