On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 03:11, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 12:38:34AM +0530, Arjun S R wrote: >> Hi, >> I would like implement RFC 6506 in linux kernel. It seems no one has >> implemented it. >> >> Its mainly about Transport protocol port randomisation. The fixed >> order[sequence of predictable randomness] of allocation of ephemeral >> port to application on request can cause malicious users to hijack >> connections based on time spent by the tcp ip api in various states. >> >> I have read the standards and is willing to go forward. Please post comments. > > Post your patches on the netdev mailing list and see what they say about > it there. ÂYou might find that this isn't really needed as we already > handle this properly through other means... > Thanks, could you please suggest the files in the kernel source tree that I should go through for the task? -- Arjun S R College Of Engineering,Trivandrum Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/Arjun.S.R Twitter: http://twitter.com/Arjun_S_R _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
