[Tsvwg] title (was Re: WGLC for Port Randomization starts now (April 1st))

Mark Allman <mallman@icir.org> Wed, 27 May 2009 03:21 UTC

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> Mark Allman wrote:
> 
> >   - The title is bogus.  The prose carefully says that the document is
> >     not about port randomization, but about port obfuscation.  The title
> >     should be corrected.
> 
> I have no problem with applying this change. However, other wg
> participants (Alfred Honenes, at least) made arguments against this
> change (i.e., "port randomization" is how this is stuff is known
> everywhere. Also, IIRC Eric Rescorla had argued that the hash function
> was actually a PRNG). So I'm not sure how to proceed here...

I didn't remember these, sorry.

I actually don't buy either of these arguments.  But, perhaps something
like "Port Obfuscation Through Randomization and Hashing" would capture
all the keywords.  

I think the title is off-the-mark, but it wouldn't be the first title
and ultimately it isn't a show-stopper.

allman