Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 26 Sep 1999 19:43:22 +0200 (CEST) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.2.x ISN Vulnerability |
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On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>Such part of the secret should remains constant across lots of seconds so >it shouldn't matter if it's zero or the right value for this issue.
Hmm I think I was wrong. I was focusing on the zero issue. The fact that the secret is zero infact is not the real issue as the secret may be zero even with the bug fixed. I think the real problem was that they _known_ the random part of the secret (that _incidentally_ was zero 8).
Andrea
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