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author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2011-08-03 20:50:44 -0700 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2011-08-15 18:57:20 -0700 |
commit | 263b89378807581c501e4673634fee5253126812 (patch) | |
tree | ad46faacbccf5b20e07589b04ada8940a1fd9a77 /Documentation/accounting | |
parent | d792afea8908f0ce73dfd997c07560dddcc52581 (diff) |
net: Compute protocol sequence numbers and fragment IDs using MD5.
Computers have become a lot faster since we compromised on the
partial MD4 hash which we use currently for performance reasons.
MD5 is a much safer choice, and is inline with both RFC1948 and
other ISS generators (OpenBSD, Solaris, etc.)
Furthermore, only having 24-bits of the sequence number be truly
unpredictable is a very serious limitation. So the periodic
regeneration and 8-bit counter have been removed. We compute and
use a full 32-bit sequence number.
For ipv6, DCCP was found to use a 32-bit truncated initial sequence
number (it needs 43-bits) and that is fixed here as well.
Reported-by: Dan Kaminsky <dan@doxpara.com>
Tested-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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