The perils of security tools

[Ivan Krstić]

On May 25, 2008, at 6:02 AM, Ben Laurie wrote:
> I meant: how good are the PRNGs underneath them?


Not a direct answer to your question, but somewhat relevant as context  
is Michal Zalewski's analysis of TCP/IP sequence number predictability  
across operating systems:

     <http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/newtcp/>

It's several years out of date, however.

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Ivan Krstić <krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> | http://radian.org

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