Patch to reduce use of global IP ID value(s) to avoid leaking information

Hans Petter Selasky hps at selasky.org
Fri Apr 3 22:01:45 UTC 2015


On 04/03/15 23:36, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
> If you don't agree with me, let's ask opinion of Mike Silbersack, the author
> of the random IP ID code. What does he things on manual page diff?

Hi Gleb,

Feel free to modify or update that text. Sure we could ask Mike 
Silbersack for advice about this one.

> P.S. Let me notice again, that you give 1 hour and 40 minutes for review.
> Why so impatient? The paragraph was sitting there without modification for
> a decade. Can it wait for at least a day?

Let's talk this over at the coming BSD conference(s) face to face. I'm 
fine using "hps_head" for committing stuff that is not directly USB related.

--HPS


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