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Re: djbdns-1.05-epoll + speedup patch

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Subject: Re: djbdns-1.05-epoll + speedup patch
From: "Matthew R. Dempsky" <mrd@alkemio.org>
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 10:38:02 -0600
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On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 05:39:20PM +0200, Sami Farin wrote:
> Well BIND seems to do better, according to this.
> http://www.lurhq.com/cachepoisoning.html

Being able to guess the next result from dns_random() with 30%
accuracy given the three previous values would imply a distinguishing
attack with nonnegligible probability against surf_k. 

However, it doesn't seem like the `calprob' program actually guesses
anything; it just estimates how successful some guesser could be.  I
tried downloading the calprob tool, but the link given in the article
is dead.  I'm interested in knowing how the 30% probability was
determined.

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