Re: [Tails-dev] Can TCP Sequence Numbers leak System Clock?

2015-07-27 Thread aka
tl;dr: Not anymore. TCP Sequence number is a number which increments for every packet in a TCP connection, to make sure TCP packets arrive in order. A while back (~20 years) it was feasible to predict initial TCP sequence numbers and spoof TCP packets, because they started at 0 or a fixed value,

[Tails-dev] Can TCP Sequence Numbers leak System Clock?

2015-07-25 Thread Patrick Schleizer
Hi! Is it possible to derive and/or estimate the system clock by observing TCP sequence numbers? Jacob Appelbaum [1]: In the Linux kernel, TCP Sequence numbers embed the system clock and then hash it. Yet another way to leak the system clock to the network. As I understand the paper 'An