tl;dr: Not anymore.
TCP Sequence number is a number which increments for every packet in a
TCP connection, to make sure TCP packets arrive in order.
A while back (~20 years) it was feasible to predict initial TCP sequence
numbers and spoof TCP packets, because they started at 0 or a fixed
value, b
Hi!
Is it possible to derive and/or estimate the system clock by observing
TCP sequence numbers?
Jacob Appelbaum [1]:
> In the Linux kernel, TCP Sequence numbers embed the system clock and
then hash it. Yet another way to leak the system clock to the network.
As I understand the paper 'An Improv