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Re: Question on Loosely Synchronized Router Clocks


From: Bora Akyol <bora.akyol () aprius com>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:27:32 -0700


It is not dependent on time. You'd like a protocol to be self sufficient if
at all possible.

Moving the vulnerability of one protocol to another is not highly desirable
in general.

Looking forward to reading your research results when available.

Regards

Bora



On 9/18/07 9:25 AM, "Xin Liu" <smilerliu () gmail com> wrote:

Sequence number has its own problems. Message sources have to remember
sequence numbers even when it reboots or crashes. Message verifiers
have to keep states too, and whenever the states go wrong due to
attack or random errors, it's hard to detect and fix them.

Best
Regards,

Xin Liu

On 9/18/07, Bora Akyol <bora.akyol () aprius com> wrote:
You can check freshness of a message by means of sequence numbers, no?

Bora


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