Silence on the Wire

Pretty Pictures: TCP/IP Stack Gallery

The visualization method seemed to work like a charm, producing unique and often instinctively worrying, charming patterns for many implementations that had been believed to be reasonably secure; many of these pictures can be found scattered on the next pages. But can these pictures do more than give us a visual representation of hard-to-quantify parameters and characteristics of a generator? Could an attacker use these mysterious three-dimensional shapes in meaningful ways, or could a computer examine them somehow to give us a clear answer about what is wrong and what is right? Is a sunflower-shaped generator easier to crack than a brick-shaped one?

Before answering this question, allow me to interrupt myself ...