Adrian Bunk wrote:
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 02:32:05PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
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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...
The original point was that urandom draws entropy from random, and that
it is an an inobvious and unintentional drain on the entropy pool. At
least that's how I read it. I certainly have programs which draw on
urandom simply because it's a convenient source of meaningless data. I
have several fewer since this discussion started, though, now that I
have looked at the easy alternatives.
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be valid when the war is over..." Otto von Bismark
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