Re: [Tails-dev] [review'n'merge:1.2] feature/6579-disable-tcp-timestamps [Was: Risks of enabled/disabled TCP timestamps?]

2014-09-29 Thread intrigeri
anonym wrote (29 Sep 2014 12:28:06 GMT) : > So I've tested this passively quite a lot (thanks to experimental > builds) without noticing any issue I can ascribe to this. I've also > looked at packet dumps in Wireshark, and if I set a filter for > tcp.options.timestamp.tsval, then I don't see any pa

Re: [Tails-dev] [review'n'merge:1.2] feature/6579-disable-tcp-timestamps [Was: Risks of enabled/disabled TCP timestamps?]

2014-09-29 Thread anonym
28/07/14 21:49, intrigeri wrote: > Hi, > > thanks to Jake's and jvoisin's input (yay, I digged some useful stuff > from this list's archives), I put into shape the bits of design doc > needed to explain why we think that it's possibly useful, and not too > risky, to disable TCP timestamps in Tails

Re: [Tails-dev] [review'n'merge:1.2] feature/6579-disable-tcp-timestamps [Was: Risks of enabled/disabled TCP timestamps?]

2014-07-31 Thread Patrick Schleizer
Hi, I haven't found the commit where you actually added /etc/sysctl.d/tcp_timestamps.conf. Does this implementation involve anything besides /etc/sysctl.d/tcp_timestamps.conf? http://www.tmltechnologies.com/html-2012/index.php/linux-rescue-kits/82-secret/91-disable-tcp-timestamps-on-linux recomm

[Tails-dev] [review'n'merge:1.2] feature/6579-disable-tcp-timestamps [Was: Risks of enabled/disabled TCP timestamps?]

2014-07-28 Thread intrigeri
Hi, thanks to Jake's and jvoisin's input (yay, I digged some useful stuff from this list's archives), I put into shape the bits of design doc needed to explain why we think that it's possibly useful, and not too risky, to disable TCP timestamps in Tails. This, combined with the fact an ISO with T