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Re: [PATCH] fix secure tcp sequence number generation

To: Manfred Spraul <manfred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix secure tcp sequence number generation
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 15:00:52 -0700
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On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 20:10:22 +0200
Manfred Spraul <manfred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ted's recent random.c update broke the periodic rekeying:
> schedule_work() doesn't provide synchronization. Additionally the first
> syn values after boot are generated with secret 0 - not good.

Are you referring to his changes done back in August or some
other change?  August is the last time I see that Ted made
a change to drivers/char/random.c

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