Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:59:20 +0100 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: Entropy Pool Contents |
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Hello!
> I still don't see how feeding tons of zeros ( or some other carefully > crafted sequence ) in will not decrease the entropy of the pool ( even > if it does so in a way that is impossible to predict ), but assuming it > can't, what good does a non root user do by writing to random?
Even if so, you should control that by filesystem permissions, not by in-kernel policy.
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