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Message-ID: <4875A771.8080803@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:08:49 +0800
From: Eugene Teo <eteo@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: DNS vulnerability: other relevant software

Eugene Teo wrote:
> Florian Weimer wrote:
>> * Mark J. Cox:
>>
>>>> Additionally, Debian has noted (DSA 1605-1) that the GNU libc stub
>>>> resolver could benefit from random query source ports as well, but
>>>> no patches are currently available to implement this:
>>> Note that GNU libc stub resolver when used with a recent kernel
>>> (2.6.24+) will give you random UDP source ports on each request
>>> because of this Linux commit:
>>>
>>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=32c1da70810017a98aa6c431a5494a302b6b9a30
>> Is net_random() cryptographically secure?  The paper referenced in the
>> source doesn't talk about this.
> 
> It isn't. It's actually a 32-bit pseudo-random number generator AFAIK.

Actually, I'm not sure. I'm checking with my colleagues who may be more
familiar with the implementation of net_random/random32() routine.

Thanks, Eugene

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