Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP

An anonymous reader writes "Following the recent excitement over a potential vulnerability in TCP, Cisco's "Worldwide Patent Counsel", Robert Barr, has let it be known that they have pending patent applications for one or more of the IETF recommendations for improving TCP's security. KernelTrap has the full details."

if tcp is copyrighted

[Anonymous Coward]

and you use it illegally, you're in trouble.

only the criminals will have network connections

What is....

[wpiman]

exitement?

Is that a cross between excitement and excrement?

Re:that's bad

[Anonymous Coward]

How can something be "redundant" if it doesn't repeate the story or a previous post? Slashmods are stroking their tiny cocks again.

hmmmmm....

[j3ll0]

CARS (RFC793 [1]) are widely deployed and one of the most often used reliable end to end protocols for PEOPLE TRANSPORTATION. Yet when it was defined over 20 years ago the ROAD SYSTEM, as we know it, was a different place lacking many of the threats that are now common. Recently several rather serious threats have been detailed that can pose new methods for both denial of service and possibly data injection by blind attackers. This document details those threats and also proposes some small changes to the way CARS handle inbound segments that either eliminate the threats or at least minimize them to a more acceptable level.

I don't know if I'm for it or against it now...

Robert Barr?

[jonman_d]

You mean Robert Barr, the man from the Redundancy Van from the monopoly of Cizzzcoo-eeeee?

(If you don't get the joke, go check the openBSD website.)

And in other news...

[TheMadPenguin]

NetBEUI becomes a routable protocol... :P

Re:if tcp is copyrighted

[DaHat]

So in the future a criminal could use a pirated wireless connection, using a pirated connection protocol to download pirated music and movies? Neat!

On the plus side, the (MP|RI)AA would be just as illegal in hunting you down... maybe I should take up P2P trading.

New Protocol

[dicepackage]

It looks like it is time to switch to IPX or NetBEUI for the internet.

Re:It's all about the phbs

[drinkypoo]

Amusing link: skynet systems [skynetsystems.com]. But I think this [sfgoth.com] is the page you're looking for.

Re:It's all about the phbs

[Anonymous Coward]

Promising pie in the sky only works for idiots.

And who do you think has final say on these kind of purchases.

Re:New Protocol

[AvitarX]

No,
Must use apple talk.

That would be fun.

Right, that's it!

[Trogre]

The Cisco is banished from Bejor, never to return.
The prophets have spoken.

Re:It's all about the phbs

[ikkonoishi]

It also detects when you try to use the CD-ROM tray as a drink holder and automatically logs you out and contacts your local BOfH.

Re:It's all about the phbs

[pyrrhonist]

It also detects when you try to use the CD-ROM tray as a drink holder and automatically logs you out and contacts your local BOfH.

...after first retracting the tray, thus spilling your drink.

Re:It's all about the phbs

[Geek of Tech]

>> My mother is just like this. I can tell her something over and over and over again, and it means nothing to her. But if she hears the same thing from a random, poorly-informed stranger, it's a proven fact.

Now you know how she felt when you were growing up.

:)

Re:Oh goody.

[Prince Vegeta SSJ4]

but with the recent "Self protecting networks" ads

I know my Cisco router is self protecting, everytime it gets more than a few requests at a time it shuts down all network traffic, requiring a reboot. At first I thought it was those damn bastards at /., but then i realized it was a feature!

Protecting the network from humans on the inside

[cgenman]

Actually, the router in question is very intelligent. All attempts to connect to MSN are re-routed to Google, and any software downloaded is first routed to the system admin for approval. When it recieves a query for windows update, it returns a package containing FireFox, ThunderBird, AVG antivirus, and SpyBot. I can't tell you what it installs when the user attempts to get SP2, but I can tell you that it isn't called "Lindows."

Re:Well...

[saden1]

You're assuming you need strong claims to get a patent application approved by the USPTO.