On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 03:11, Greg KH [off-list ref] wrote:

On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 12:38:34AM +0530, Arjun S R wrote:

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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. ?You 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?
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