Subject: Re: rpc xid randomness
To: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@itojun.org>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 09/12/2003 11:59:17
On Saturday, September 6, 2003, at 12:46 PM, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino
wrote:
> given horsepower of today's machine the computation overhead is
> smaller than the benefit we'll get. (well, some of you run pdp10,
> but don't you want your pdp10 be secure against id predictability
> attacks?)
Quite a lot of modern embedded systems don't have a lot of horsepower,
but still need to run these kinds of applications. Performance/benefit
tradeoffs do need to be considered.
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>