Comment by l23k4
5 hours ago
>It does not work like that - it has certain pre-condition requirements. You also need a reliable oracle which tells information when you actually hit the child process, whether child crashes and whether you are even in the same child. When you can retrieve this information, you are then removing re-randomization between attempts. That reduces the entropy, but it only helps if remaining search space is small enough. They don't show that they have oracle.
Why are you assuming there's any re-randomization going on? There isn't. That's a proposed mitigation to address this known problem with fork-based servers.
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