Re: [PATCH] Clock-independent TCP ISN generation

[Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>]

On 9/3/19 6:27 PM, Cyrus Sh wrote:
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> On 9/3/19 10:17 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
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>> Do you have a real program showing us how this clock skew can be used practically ?
> This is a well studied issue. You can take a look at this presentation as an
> example:
> http://caia.swin.edu.au/talks/CAIA-TALK-080728A.pdf

2008 ? Really ?

I do not want an example, I want a proof that current systems are
exhibiting all the needed behavior.

I do not have time to spend hours reading old stuff based
on old architectures.

> 
>> You will have to convince people at IETF and get a proper RFC 
> No I won't. A lot of these standards have been written at a time that anonymity
> networks were not of big importance. Now that they are, we try to lessen the
> negative impacts of some RFC deficiencies by improving the implementation. It's
> up to you whether to want to keep using a problematic code that may endanger
> users or want to do something about it since we won't insist on having a patch
> accepted.
> 

Then this is the end. linux wont change something as fundamental without
proper feedback from the community.