Messages in this thread | | | From | Bodo Eggert <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] Pseudo-random number generator | Date | Fri, 01 Dec 2006 18:33:01 +0100 |
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Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: > On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 16:20:46 +0100 > Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@de.ibm.com> wrote:
>> Yes, a user can just symlink urandom to prandom and will have a faster >> generator. > > > More usefully they can use it as an entropy source with an entropy > daemon to feed it into the standard urandom/random.
Only if other users will randomly drain /dev/prandom, otherwise you might as well use /dev/zero. -- Ich danke GMX dafür, die Verwendung meiner Adressen mittels per SPF verbreiteten Lügen zu sabotieren.
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