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Re: Source port randomisation on NetBSD?

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Subject: Re: Source port randomisation on NetBSD?
From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 17:52:54 +0200

On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 05:43:11PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> The draft is (maybe intentionally?) vague on the issues - what evil real life
> attacks is this "protecting" from?

It's protecting stupid protocols like DNS that are only secured by 16bit
entropy in the UDP case.

Joerg

References:
- Source port randomisation on NetBSD?
  - From: Stephane Bortzmeyer
- Re: Source port randomisation on NetBSD?
  - From: Christos Zoulas
- Re: Source port randomisation on NetBSD?
  - From: Martin Husemann

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