Sunday 09 December 2007 00:03:45 tarihinde Adrian Bunk şunları yazmıştı: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 02:32:05PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > >... > > Sounds like a local DoS attack point to me... > > As long as /dev/random is readable for all users there's no reason to > use /dev/urandom for a local DoS...
Draining entropy in /dev/urandom means that insecure and possibly not random data will be used and well thats a security bug if not a DoS bug. And yes this is by design, sigh. -- Never learn by your mistakes, if you do you may never dare to try again. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
