From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: davem@redhat.com (David S. Miller)
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, davids@webmaster.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC2385 (MD5 signature in TCP packets) support
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 23:59:36 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E16m1bl-000554-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020315.153705.111545634.davem@redhat.com> from "David S. Miller" at Mar 15, 2002 03:37:05 PM
> A RST must, in order to function properly, be as simple and non-error
> prone as possible. MD5 signatures are totally against that.
Duh wakey wakey Dave
> Either use IPSEC or fix its' deficiencies.
What do you think Ipsec does with an RST frame with an incorrect IP-AH
MD5 signature ? Exactly the same thing.
I'm not saying the RFC is a good idea (tho its a needed patch to use Linux
for backbone routing sanely with most vendors BGP kit). Your argument about
the RST frame is however pure horseshit
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-15 23:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-15 22:36 David Schwartz
2002-03-15 22:53 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-15 23:11 ` David Schwartz
2002-03-15 23:14 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-15 23:15 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-15 23:13 ` David Schwartz
2002-03-15 23:16 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-15 23:37 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-15 23:45 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-15 23:57 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-16 0:06 ` David Schwartz
2002-03-16 1:43 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-18 4:09 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-18 5:06 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-03-18 6:19 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-16 4:19 ` debugging eth driver Petko Manolov
2002-03-16 17:27 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-16 18:52 ` Petko Manolov
2002-03-16 20:56 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-17 1:36 ` Keith Owens
2002-03-17 3:37 ` Tomasz Kłoczko
2002-03-22 7:40 ` Cameron Simpson
2002-03-16 0:01 ` RFC2385 (MD5 signature in TCP packets) support David Schwartz
2002-03-16 0:12 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-15 23:59 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2002-03-15 23:53 ` David Schwartz
2002-03-15 23:54 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-16 0:14 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-15 23:40 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-17 10:00 ` bert hubert
2002-03-22 5:55 ` 2.5.7, IDE, 'handler not null', 'kernel timer added twice' David Schwartz
2002-03-22 6:10 ` Davide Libenzi
2002-03-22 10:59 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-22 20:13 ` Davide Libenzi
2002-03-23 13:12 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-22 6:31 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-03-15 23:19 ` RFC2385 (MD5 signature in TCP packets) support Alan Cox
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