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Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-bfd-secure-sequence-numbers-13.txt

Alan DeKok <aland@freeradius.org> Mon, 05 February 2024 22:57 UTC

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Subject: Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-bfd-secure-sequence-numbers-13.txt
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  Looking at the paper in more detail, I think we should be fine.

  The attacks are for things like "seed is all zero", which we don't care about here.

  The main take-away is to change the way we seed ISAAC a little bit, and we should be fine.  I'll work something out tomorrow.

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