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The UK's Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure has completed a study on the TCP protocol that underpins intenet communications. The study is billed as the first comprehensive security assessment of the core protocol, but would actually better be described as a road map of where we are and a jumping-off point for …

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  1. Bear

    a summary would be useful

    This appears to be a useful document, but at 130 pages it would have been nice to have a bit of a summary of the major concerns.

    Looks like I have some reading for the day...

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  2. Chris Simmons
    Paris Hilton

    There's nice boyo...

    "many protocol specifications focus only on the operational aspects of the protocols they specify"

    there's useful now, I guess that comes from the cult handbook "Dianetics" or the other one "The Science of the Bleeding Obvious, How to Camouflage Yourself and be a Government Minister in Half an Easy Lesson".

    If only I could post the LOLCat - "Cannot brain today - I have the dumb"

    Paris - cos her pussy could be rather ...no, not again

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  3. Anonymous Coward
    Jobs Horns

    aye aye amos breardley

    so basically the whole tcp/ip stack needs "standardising"

    too many patches at vendor level.

    well duh

    ive been saying this for years ;)

    amos breardley cos he was in emmerdale

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