On 30/12/09 09:25 +0100, Hartmut Goebel wrote:
> Cédric Krier schrieb:
> > But a timestamp is perhaps the solution with a wait if there is a
> > collision. The sequence will have a timestamp precision field and a
> > last timestamp used.
> 
> Please rethink whether it is necessary to record the last timestamp. If
> precisstion is small enough, there time will change between every call.

If the precision is configurable, we must check it.

> 
> An addition could be to include a (smaller) sequence counter, too. Thus
> an attacker would have to guess both the counter and the correct timestamp.

Don't understand what an attacker can do ?


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