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Revision as of 06:54, 30 June 2016
The evil bit is a fictional IPv4 packet header field proposed in RFC 3514, a humorous April Fools' Day RFC from 2003 authored by Steve Bellovin.
The RFC recommended that the last remaining unused bit in the IPv4 packet header be used to indicate whether a packet had been sent with malicious intent, thus making computer security engineering an easy problem -- simply ignore any messages with the evil bit set.
In the News
Fiction cross-reference
- Carnevale Tenebre
- Gnomon Algorithm
- Hollerith
- Killer Poke - software defect for hire, and contract killer for Murder, Incorporated 1.1.
- Ticketology
Nonfiction cross-reference
External links:
- Evil bit @ Wikipedia