On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 3:11 PM, David Mazieres <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > On Thu 2015-08-13 17:05:38 -0400, Kyle Rose wrote:
>
> That said, one could imagine a fringe use case where an application
> wants to prove that two anonymous TCP connections belong to the same two
> processes, in which case the session ID of the first connection might be
> used as a MAC key to authenticate the session ID of the second.  So you
> don't want the session ID to be predictable, even if making it public
> doesn't hurt TCPINC itself.
>
>
​I don't think I understand this use case.  To whom does the application
want to prove this?

regards,

Ted​
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