From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: openbsd shen <openbsd.shen@gmail.com>
Subject: Question about the syncookie_secret[] in syncookies.c
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 22:10:48 +0800
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In /usr/src/linux/net/ipv4/syncookies.c, there are 2 lines:

static __u32 syncookie_secret[2][16-3+SHA_DIGEST_WORDS];
#define SHA_DIGEST_WORDS 5

As we know 16-3+5 = 18, why not use syncookie_secret[2][18] directly ?

Thanks