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Does it matter?

Does it matter?

Posted Aug 20, 2011 1:36 UTC (Sat) by njs (guest, #40338)
In reply to: Does it matter? by pflugstad
Parent article: Unpredictable sequence numbers

Yes, but I also use protocols like HTTP that don't have cryptographic integrity guarantees... and those protocols are more at risk if TCP sequence numbers are predictable than if they aren't, which is why TCP sequence numbers matter beyond DoS attacks. Which was epa's question...


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