From owner-freebsd-stable Sat May 5 15:21: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from peitho.fxp.org (peitho.fxp.org [209.26.95.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E89BF37B628 for ; Sat, 5 May 2001 15:21:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cdf.lists@fxp.org) Received: by peitho.fxp.org (Postfix, from userid 1501) id 5E9AF1360C; Sat, 5 May 2001 18:21:00 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 18:21:00 -0400 From: Chris Faulhaber To: Lauri Laupmaa Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ISN number prediction ? Message-ID: <20010505182100.A56955@peitho.fxp.org> References: <3AF46C50.640F6C20@inspiral.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3AF46C50.640F6C20@inspiral.net>; from mauri@inspiral.net on Sun, May 06, 2001 at 12:10:41AM +0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 12:10:41AM +0300, Lauri Laupmaa wrote: > Hi >=20 > 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... >=20 > Any comments about this ? >=20 Perhaps you missed the recent FreeBSD security advisory: http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=3D0+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... --=20 Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org -------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD: The Power To Serve - http://www.FreeBSD.org --BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: FreeBSD: The Power To Serve iEYEARECAAYFAjr0fMsACgkQObaG4P6BelBBMwCfa+x6vDO8tH9pS5DZJqnVkLsC O+sAoJ2IMtNDixxKGCJ7RCiDTllKfoSt =7mTg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message