Re: why icmp timestamping is enabled by default ?

2013-10-21 Thread Henning Brauer
* Илья Шипицин chipits...@gmail.com [2013-10-10 13:31]: I am about to switch icmp timestamps off (security people are afraid of that setting) your security people have no clue regarding security. they probably also block icmp, since it's so dangerous. -- Henning Brauer, h...@bsws.de,

Re: why icmp timestamping is enabled by default ?

2013-10-21 Thread Theo de Raadt
I am about to switch icmp timestamps off (security people are afraid of that setting) your security people have no clue regarding security. they probably also block icmp, since it's so dangerous. icmp is only dangerous if you have ip traffic. dangerous ip traffic. indeed, maybe dig to

Re: why icmp timestamping is enabled by default ?

2013-10-21 Thread Henning Brauer
* Илья Шипицин chipits...@gmail.com [2013-10-11 04:52]: I was just curious why that timestamping is enabled by default. 'cause there is no reason to disable it. why is tcp enabled by default? -- Henning Brauer, h...@bsws.de, henn...@openbsd.org BS Web Services GmbH, http://bsws.de,

Re: why icmp timestamping is enabled by default ?

2013-10-21 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 11:57:42AM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote: * ?? chipits...@gmail.com [2013-10-11 04:52]: I was just curious why that timestamping is enabled by default. 'cause there is no reason to disable it. why is tcp enabled by default? Because it is used

Re: why icmp timestamping is enabled by default ?

2013-10-21 Thread Johan Beisser
On Oct 21, 2013, at 2:57, Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: * Илья Шипицин chipits...@gmail.com [2013-10-11 04:52]: I was just curious why that timestamping is enabled by default. 'cause there is no reason to disable it. why is tcp enabled by default? Everyone knows that

Re: why icmp timestamping is enabled by default ?

2013-10-13 Thread Mihai Popescu
it is famous your mother if fat openbsd community style. I was not asking whether it is secret or not. I was curious about common use scenarios, where icmp timestamping is involved. Hi, 1. Maybe I'm wrong but I think OpenBSD doesn't have a community like other praised OSes, so there is no

Re: why icmp timestamping is enabled by default ?

2013-10-13 Thread Илья Шипицин
I apologise that I didn't predict such responces. I was looking for real life examples, i.e. we use icmp timestamps widely, because we use timed or a lot of devices like D-Link-NNN use icmp timestamps. I was not looking for theoretical possibilities that icmp timestamping gives. I should mention

Re: why icmp timestamping is enabled by default ?

2013-10-12 Thread Илья Шипицин
2013/10/11 Christian Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de: chipits...@gmail.com wrote: actually, I'm not going to block icmp at all, I was curious why net.inet.icmp.tstamprepl=1 by default. So you can run timed, of course. timed was removed from OpenBSD recently As others have said, the time is

Re: why icmp timestamping is enabled by default ?

2013-10-12 Thread Theo de Raadt
actually, I'm not going to block icmp at all, I was curious why net.inet.icmp.tstamprepl=1 by default. So you can run timed, of course. timed was removed from OpenBSD recently As others have said, the time is not a secret. it is famous your mother if fat openbsd community style.

Re: why icmp timestamping is enabled by default ?

2013-10-11 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 08:44:36AM +0600, ??? wrote: 2013/10/10 Philip Guenther guent...@gmail.com: On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 4:30 AM, ??? chipits...@gmail.com wrote: I use ntp already. So everyone can predict what your machine would have sent in response to an ICMP

Re: why icmp timestamping is enabled by default ?

2013-10-11 Thread Илья Шипицин
2013/10/11 Claudio Jeker cje...@diehard.n-r-g.com: On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 08:44:36AM +0600, ??? wrote: 2013/10/10 Philip Guenther guent...@gmail.com: On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 4:30 AM, ??? chipits...@gmail.com wrote: I use ntp already. So everyone can predict what your

Re: why icmp timestamping is enabled by default ?

2013-10-11 Thread Christian Weisgerber
chipits...@gmail.com wrote: actually, I'm not going to block icmp at all, I was curious why net.inet.icmp.tstamprepl=1 by default. So you can run timed, of course. As others have said, the time is not a secret. -- Christian naddy Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de

Re: why icmp timestamping is enabled by default ?

2013-10-10 Thread Илья Шипицин
I use ntp already. I am about to switch icmp timestamps off (security people are afraid of that setting), just curious what was the purpose of it. 2013/10/10 Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.org: it turned out that OpenBSD allows icmp timestamping by default: net.inet.icmp.tstamprepl=1

Re: why icmp timestamping is enabled by default ?

2013-10-10 Thread Philip Guenther
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 4:30 AM, Илья Шипицин chipits...@gmail.com wrote: I use ntp already. So everyone can predict what your machine would have sent in response to an ICMP timestamp query, meaning that turning it off doesn't hide anything. I am about to switch icmp timestamps off (security

Re: why icmp timestamping is enabled by default ?

2013-10-10 Thread Theo de Raadt
I use ntp already. So everyone can predict what your machine would have sent in response to an ICMP timestamp query, meaning that turning it off doesn't hide anything. Oh my god! It's revealing a public secret!

Re: why icmp timestamping is enabled by default ?

2013-10-10 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2013-10-10, Philip Guenther guent...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 4:30 AM, Илья Шипицин chipits...@gmail.com wrote: I use ntp already. So everyone can predict what your machine would have sent in response to an ICMP timestamp query, meaning that turning it off doesn't hide

Re: why icmp timestamping is enabled by default ?

2013-10-10 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 05:30:39PM +0600, ??? wrote: | I use ntp already. | I am about to switch icmp timestamps off (security people are afraid | of that setting), just curious what was the purpose of it. Uhm .. why? Is your pf broken somehow? block in on $interface inet proto icmp

Re: why icmp timestamping is enabled by default ?

2013-10-10 Thread Илья Шипицин
2013/10/10 Philip Guenther guent...@gmail.com: On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 4:30 AM, Илья Шипицин chipits...@gmail.com wrote: I use ntp already. So everyone can predict what your machine would have sent in response to an ICMP timestamp query, meaning that turning it off doesn't hide anything.

Re: why icmp timestamping is enabled by default ?

2013-10-10 Thread Илья Шипицин
2013/10/11 Paul de Weerd we...@weirdnet.nl: On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 05:30:39PM +0600, ??? wrote: | I use ntp already. | I am about to switch icmp timestamps off (security people are afraid | of that setting), just curious what was the purpose of it. Uhm .. why? Is your pf broken

why icmp timestamping is enabled by default ?

2013-10-09 Thread Илья Шипицин
Hello! it turned out that OpenBSD allows icmp timestamping by default: net.inet.icmp.tstamprepl=1 what was that done for ? Cheers, Ilya Shipitsin

Re: why icmp timestamping is enabled by default ?

2013-10-09 Thread Ted Unangst
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 09:21, Илья Шипицин wrote: it turned out that OpenBSD allows icmp timestamping by default: net.inet.icmp.tstamprepl=1 what was that done for ? well, why not? if you have some program vulnerable to a the attacker knows the time attack, i don't think turning off

Re: why icmp timestamping is enabled by default ?

2013-10-09 Thread Theo de Raadt
it turned out that OpenBSD allows icmp timestamping by default: net.inet.icmp.tstamprepl=1 what was that done for ? well, why not? if you have some program vulnerable to a the attacker knows the time attack, i don't think turning off icmp timestamps will save you. the attacker