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Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 11:35:39 -0700
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc: Jeffrey Knockel <jeffk@...unm.edu>,
David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
"Jedidiah R. Crandall" <crandall@...unm.edu>,
Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>,
"security@...nel.org" <security@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ip: make IP identifiers less predictable
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
>
> We might change the hash to use both daddr & saddr to increase
> protection.
.. and maybe protocol too, so that you can't easily use icmp echo
packets to do it for udp packets etc. The underlying jhash is
jhash_3words(), so that would actually be fairly natural for at least
ipv4 (the ipv6 case I didn't look at).
Linus
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