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IPv4 Headers Investigated
An anonymous reader writes "New security measures are being suggested (see RFC 3514) for the IPv4 header. The measures include a bit that can be set and unset according to whether the packet is secure or not. Due to the important security implications, anyone coding client/server internet applications might want to take a look."
There! I claim it in the name of the third dupe! So we've already had a dupe and a tripe, perhaps we call this...hmm, what's a good name for a fourth dupe?
This sig no verb.
Why am I always the last to know about these things. I try and keep up to date about technology matters, but I've missed out on this. I wish that I could have seen this one coming.
OK...
I can do this. I am, after all,
a superhero!
It's April 1st. I wonder if Taco's gonna do anything out of the ordinary today for April Fool's Day?
Microsoft have released a beowulf distro.
Linus has joined redhat.
Slackware is closing down.
Linux now runs on single entangled electrons at MIT
etc etc etc
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I read somewhere today that there's a new RFC out regarding IP header bits--you can set and unset a particular bit to determine the packet's overall security. I haven't seen it linked anywhere yet, and I'm considering sending it in to the editors, but I can't find their address.
This is something I think they'd be very interested in.
We need a new flag implemented into the Slashdot system that will indicate whether or not the story is a dupe. It can be preset to DUPE=1 to save everyone trouble.
Might as well take advantage of Taco's amnesia... I've now submitted the story again, and expect my version of it to be the 6th or 7th posting. Maybe I'll finally break the karma barrier this way!
This is beginning to remind me of that fat kid in school who only knew one joke, and kept repeating it ALL THE GODDAMNED TIME.
You know him. He was at your school, too.
Is that there's a bunch of duplicate stories, and people can't tell if it's April Fools, or just business as usual...
You don't see the pattern here?
Story
Story
Dup Evil bit
Story
Story
Dup Evil bit
It'll be pretty much like this all day, today. And people were annoyed with the plethora of Apr. 1 gags last year. The Peter Jackson/King Kong is real, afaik, as it's been in the news the prior couple days. (How did that one slip through?)
In other news:
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Yes he was.
Have you learned any new ones yet?
that fat kid in school who only knew one joke, and kept repeating it
Hey, that was ME!!!!
There is no reasonable defense against an idiot with an agenda
:wq
Next Year? Ha!
I'm betting on tomorrow.
Any sufficiently well-organized Government is indistinguishable from bullshit.
"This is the post that doesn't end,
yes it goes on and on my friends.
Ol' Taco started posting it, not knowing what it was,
And he'll continue posting it forever just because,
This is the post that doesn't end,
yes it goes on and on my friends..."
Never met that kid at my high school.
Oh, and did you hear about the new RFC for new security measures in IPv4?
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Tripes and quadrupes are new though.
I don't know about quadrupes, but they do post tripe rather frequently.
I take drugs seriously.
Ride that dead horse! Ride 'im, boy!