From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Implementing RFC 6056
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 06:32:20 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110602213220.GA4299@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=6OEmgpZnhuay-OHqJiyVfjvuWoA@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 10:58:40PM +0530, Arjun S R wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 03:11, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> 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. ?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?
Have you looked in net/*
Yes it's a lot, but that would be where you need to make changes if you
were to implement such a thing.
good luck,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-02 21:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-31 19:08 Implementing RFC 6056 Arjun S R
2011-05-31 19:11 ` Arjun S R
2011-05-31 21:41 ` Greg KH
2011-06-02 17:28 ` Arjun S R
2011-06-02 21:32 ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-06-02 17:38 ` Arjun S R
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