On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 09:10:54PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Also, reading /dev/mem doesn't sound very secure at all (even if it works) > because the patterns in the memory of a computer are probably predictable > and a lot of information can be observed from the outside (which processes > are running etc).
why do you assume that xdm uses the raw result from /dev/mem? running, say, md5 over the results would give you something as close to random as i doubt you could find a difference. -- Revolutions do not require corporate support.
