Re: NYT Article this morning

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Christopher Klaus says:
> To fully fix the problem will require all the vendors to come out with
> kernel patches to make the TCP sequence numbering difficult to
> guess,

Even that is insufficient, actually. If you see a packet going by, you
can still try to jam the works up and steal the connection anyway. The
only permanent solution is a cryptographic security protocol for the
net -- one is actually in the works now in the IETF.

Perry

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