Re: TCP timestamp starting value

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 12:47:06PM +0200, Edgar Fuß wrote:
> EF> -- why incorporate src into the hash?
> JS> No leaking of the network topology of the server, it can have more than
> JS> one address.
> I don't get that. What information do you leak if the pseudo-random
> timestamp starting value is INdependent of the source address?

Because TCP connections from different addresses of a machine to the
same address would have the same TCP timestamp.

Joerg