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Re: TCP/IP ISN Prediction Susceptibility


From: Crist Clark <crist.clark () GLOBALSTAR COM>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 09:55:01 -0800

"Solar, Eclipse" wrote:

[snip]

It seems that Guardent claims that the pseudo-random ISN
generation algorithm implemented in most TCP/IP stacks
is flawed. Does anybody have more information about this?

Maybe this has something to do with it or vice-versa,

  http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/ios-tcp-isn-random-pub.shtml

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