On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:49:14PM +0100, Mark Murray wrote: > I can certainly trigger a reseed at will, but allowing external writes > to overwhelm the system by doing a > > $ cat /dev/zero > /dev/random > > ... just ain't gonna happen. No, sir.
Has it been considered that /dev/random being "rw-rw-rw-" may be a bad idea? What's the benefit of allowing unprivileged users reseeding yarrow? Perhaps restricting it to "rw-r--r--" is a part of the solution that may address potential system overwhelm by unprivileged users? _______________________________________________ freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-security-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
