Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 10:47:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Simon Shapiro <Shimon@i-Connect.Net> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sequence predictability (fwd) Message-ID: <XFMail.970613104732.Shimon@i-Connect.Net> In-Reply-To: <199706062115.RAA12756@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Hi Garrett Wollman; On 06-Jun-97 you wrote: > <<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. OK, Bad Idea, then :-) I think the true solution is elsewhere but will not voice my (politically incorrect) idea in public. Simon
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