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Re: A pothole in ISAKMP/Oakley



> I will note, however, that if the SPI's are pseudo-randomly generated,
> as is required by the spec, then the probability of using the same SPI
> twice should be extremely low.  So the implementations that revealed
> this problem were defective.

Hilarie is right.  SPI values must be {pseudo-,}randomly generated, if I
remember the specs correctly.  Implementations that do otherwise are probably
broken.

Dan



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