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Re: [PATCH] Add the ability to generate quality random IPs without any duplicates
From: Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:24:43 -0700
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 07:03:21AM +0000, Brandon Enright wrote:
I haven't evaluated the quality of randomness, though Brandon's graphs look promising. Perfect randomness isn't critical here anyway.Really good randomness is a nice thing to have. The world wouldn't end if Nmap didn't have it though.
And here we're just talking about -iR randomness. Nmap will still have more secure random numbers available for other uses.
So I think the answer is that we should switch -iR to use my tweak with 3 rounds. I'm not attaching a patch here because my testing has made a real mess of a bunch of code and it will take me a while to clean it up. If there are no objections I'll check something in tomorrow.
Sounds great. -iR is actually one of my favorite Nmap options, and this patch makes it better. Cheers, -F _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://SecLists.Org
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- [PATCH] Add the ability to generate quality random IPs without any duplicates Brandon Enright (Aug 21)
- Re: [PATCH] Add the ability to generate quality random IPs without any duplicates David Fifield (Aug 21)
- Re: [PATCH] Add the ability to generate quality random IPs without any duplicates David Fifield (Aug 23)
- Re: [PATCH] Add the ability to generate quality random IPs without any duplicates Brandon Enright (Aug 23)
- Re: [PATCH] Add the ability to generate quality random IPs without any duplicates Fyodor (Aug 23)
- Re: [PATCH] Add the ability to generate quality random IPs without any duplicates Brandon Enright (Aug 23)
- Re: [PATCH] Add the ability to generate quality random IPs without any duplicates Brandon Enright (Aug 28)
- Re: [PATCH] Add the ability to generate quality random IPs without any duplicates Fyodor (Aug 28)
- Re: [PATCH] Add the ability to generate quality random IPs without any duplicates David Fifield (Aug 28)
- Re: [PATCH] Add the ability to generate quality random IPs without any duplicates Brandon Enright (Sep 01)
- Re: [PATCH] Add the ability to generate quality random IPs without any duplicates Fyodor (Sep 08)
- Re: [PATCH] Add the ability to generate quality random IPs without any duplicates Brandon Enright (Sep 08)
- Re: [PATCH] Add the ability to generate quality random IPs without any duplicates Brandon Enright (Aug 23)