On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 07:46, Ruben <spame...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Package: general > Severity: wishlist > > Hello. > > I would like to see Frandom in the Debian repositories. Frandom is a kernel > module for pseudo-random data generation, much as random and urandom, but > works > incredibly fast. > > It is currently unmantained. However, is still usefull. You can have a look > in > http://www.billauer.co.il/frandom.html for more information.
All this module seems to do is grab some data from /dev/urandom and use it as a key for an RC4 generator. While it's a nice project to learn about kernel APIs, why should this be in the kernel, widening the kernel attack surface and thus giving the security team more work, when it can be in a userspace application or library just as easily? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/banlktimp+21xcyf6z-f99zdpya1vjkx...@mail.gmail.com
