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Mike Silbersack a432399c56 Improve the security and performance of syncookies:
Security improvements:
- Increase the size of each syncookie secret from 32 to 128 bits
  in order to make brute force attacks on the secrets much more
  difficult.
- Always return the lowest order dword from the MD5 hash; this
  allows us to expose 2 more bits of the cookie and makes ACK
  floods which seek to guess the cookie value more difficult.

Performance improvements:
- Increase the lifetime of each syncookie from 4 seconds to 16
  seconds.  This increases the usefulness of syncookies during
  an attack.
- From Yahoo!: Reduce the number of calls to MD5Update; this
  results in a ~17% increase in cookie generation time here.

Reviewed by:	hsu, jayanth, jlemon, nectar
MFC After:	15 seconds
2003-02-23 19:04:23 +00:00
bin mdoc(7) police: markup laundry. 2003-02-23 01:47:49 +00:00
contrib
crypto
etc Don't try to deal with vi.recover if the directory doesn't exist 2003-02-21 09:37:20 +00:00
games Add a quote from Bob Schieffer's recent book about freedom of the press. 2003-02-23 06:14:04 +00:00
gnu
include
kerberos5
kerberosIV
lib Mention CLOCK_MONOTONIC. 2003-02-23 10:20:23 +00:00
libexec mdoc(7) police: expand contraction. 2003-02-23 01:45:51 +00:00
release mk file needed for 'make obj' done by $CHROOTDIR/mk 2003-02-23 06:27:21 +00:00
sbin These are WARNS=2 clean, try to keep them that way. 2003-02-23 13:25:02 +00:00
secure
share A few improvements suggested by nectar. 2003-02-23 17:22:20 +00:00
sys Improve the security and performance of syncookies: 2003-02-23 19:04:23 +00:00
tools Add LINT to the target list for the test setup. 2003-02-23 12:41:32 +00:00
usr.bin Let everyone know when to send the gifts. 2003-02-21 19:25:39 +00:00
usr.sbin Under some unusual conditions, inetd can leak a open file discriptor 2003-02-23 16:54:19 +00:00
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Makefile.inc1 Respect ``makeoptions NO_MODULES'' specified in the kernel config file. 2003-02-21 11:19:25 +00:00
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