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Re[2]: A new TCP/IP blind data injection technique?


From: Marius Huse Jacobsen <mahuja () c2i net>
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 01:59:56 -0800

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Hello Valdis,

Thursday, December 11, 2003, 9:06:26 AM, you wrote:

VKve> However, it's a trivial matter to take the original text, the replacement text,
VKve> and compute an original such that the checksum comes out "the same".

Only this is a scenario where we don't have the "original text". If we
had, we could have just ripped out the sequence numbers and skipped
the whole problem.

As long as we don't know anything of the original data we have to
guess the correct checksum.

Still, 1 of 65535 is a lot better than... what is it, 2**64 ?


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Best regards,
 Marius                            mailto:mahuja () c2i net

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