Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261509AbVA1Rox (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jan 2005 12:44:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261501AbVA1Rox (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jan 2005 12:44:53 -0500 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:16133 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261491AbVA1Rku (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jan 2005 12:40:50 -0500 Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 18:40:46 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: Lorenzo =?iso-8859-1?Q?Hern=E1ndez_Garc=EDa-Hierro?= Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , torvalds@osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] OpenBSD Networking-related randomization port Message-ID: <20050128174046.GR28047@stusta.de> References: <1106932637.3778.92.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1106932637.3778.92.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1076 Lines: 29 On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 06:17:17PM +0100, Lorenzo Hern?ndez Garc?a-Hierro wrote: >... > As it's impact is minimal (in performance and development/maintenance > terms), I recommend to merge it, as it gives a basic prevention for the > so-called system fingerprinting (which is used most by "kids" to know > how old and insecure could be a target system, many time used as the > first, even only-one, data to decide if attack or not the target host) > among other things. >... "basic prevention"? I hardly see how this patch makes OS fingerprinting by e.g. Nmap impossible. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/