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:::Perfect! --[[User:Falcorian|Falcorian]] <sup><small>[[User_talk:Falcorian|(talk)]]</small></sup> 22:44, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
You're welcome, Falcorian, always glad to oblige ;-)
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While we're at it, would you help me find appropriate language to include the following facts into the syncookie story:
* djb, modest as usual, crossposted his idea to no less than five newsgroups in 1996 (alt.security,comp.security.unix,comp.security.misc,comp.security,comp.protocols.tcp-ip) http://cr.yp.to/syncookies/idea , started a mailinglist dedicated to the subject the same month: http://cr.yp.to/syncookies/archive and posted to the linux netdev mailing list.
* Linux had syncookie support from 1997 on: Eric Schenk himself did a reference implementation in February 1997 http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/net/9702.3/0070.html
With this amount of exposure freely available to anybody interested in the field, Gibsons claim to have independantly re-invented the wheel is, to put it mildly, surprising. How could a NPOV version of this possibly look like ? --[[User:Ministry of Truth|Ministry of Truth]] 00:00, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
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