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Re: Cisco's Statement about IPR Claimed in draft-ietf-tcpm-tcpsecure
- From: Valdis.Kletnieks
- Date: Thu May 13 11:52:58 2004
On Wed, 12 May 2004 21:51:53 EDT, Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> said:
> Gimme a break. This text is a half-baked concoction at best if the next
> draft still doesn't mention port randomization as a cheap and effective
> mitigator for external attack attempts. You can get at least 14 bits of
> entropy for one lousy arc4random() call. Enter as often as you like. No
> purchase required.
>
> With this and the patent funny business, I don't know if I can roll my eyes
> any further into the back of my head.
Well.. you have to remember that we live in an environment where people
are *just* noticing that RFC793 says "The RST has to be in the window,
not dead on"... and apparently overnight somebody has re-discovered the
fact that CSMA/CA networks will fall over if somebody starts jabbering:
http://www.auscert.org.au/render.html?it=4091
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