http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=104207956000003&r=1&w=2

As long as you have SecureRandom available - you should be OK. (Unless Sun's implementation is bad.)

-Tim

Bill Gorr wrote:

I know that the space is theoretically 128 bit (2^128) but who can promise
that it is not
made of 12 bits of seed (which are very predictable ..).

I was looking in the archive before my posting and found nothing about it,
can you please point
out one of the postings?

thanks,

Bill


----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Funk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 4:40 PM
Subject: Re: session-id prediction




They'd have to be one incredible guesser. Session ids are random and the
session ID space is gigantic. Check the archives for a session id

duplication


discussion that went through all the math details.

-Tim

Bill Gorr wrote:


Hello all,

Is there something in Tomcat that stops an adversary from guessing

someone else session-id and preform


a session hijacking?

thanks.

Bill

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