Clock slew vulnerability in FreeBSD?

[gnn at freebsd.org]

At Fri, 11 Mar 2005 03:46:46 +0100,
Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> 
> 
> How vulnerable is FreeBSD to the recently announced technique for
> individually identifying computers by the clock slew apparent in TCP
> packets?  If it is vulnerable to this, will there be any plans to
> address the vulnerability?
> 
I gather you mean this paper:

http://www.caida.org/outreach/papers/2005/fingerprinting/

It's an interesting read.

As to how vulnerable FreeBSD is to this I do not know nor do I know if
we should bother to do anything about it.  What, in particular are you
worried about here?  Also, if you consider this a security issue you
should probably also include the security team in this discussion.

Later,
George