[106248] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Paul Vixie: Re: [dns-operations] DNS issue accidentally leaked?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Thu Jul 24 16:41:15 2008
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:39:31 -0400
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
To: Richard Parker <richard@electrophobia.com>
In-Reply-To: <6CD95D88-8EF9-4C13-AB98-700D1FECD84B@electrophobia.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: deepak@ai.net
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> For one iPhone it reported 209.183.54.151 as having GREAT source port
> randomness and GREAT transaction ID randomness. However, despite the
> test reporting GREAT, the source ports were _definitely_ non-random.
>
> http://5d93b9656563a44e4c900ff9.et.dns-oarc.net/
>
"Proving random" is not easy. Proving random that isn't done by certain
methods (i.e. certain algorithms or certain sources of entropy) is easier.
Deepak
