netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv4: Add support to disable icmp timestamp

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Message-Id: <20190513.090752.109843175300806601.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Mon, 13 May 2019 09:07:52 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     mkubecek@...e.cz
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, chenweilong@...wei.com,
        kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv4: Add support to disable icmp timestamp

From: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>
Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 14:11:45 +0200

> I'm sorry but I cannot agree with that. Seeding PRNG with current time
> is known to be a bad practice and if some application does it, the
> solution is to fix the application, not obfuscating system time.

+1 +1 +1