Messages in this thread | | | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: CONFIG_RANDOM option for 1.99.2 | Date | Wed, 15 May 1996 19:40:38 +0200 (MET DST) |
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Hi,
> No, don't bother with a simple linear congruential generator --- those > are trivial to break, and most of the places where you need strong > random numbers, a linear congruential generator simply won't cut it. > > That's why I've resisted strenuously any suggestion that /dev/random > might be replaced by a psuedo-random number generator --- that will > only give people a false sense of security, while network cracker cackle > with glee over how easy it is to break into Linux boxes....
No, I didn't say /dev/random should be repaced by LCG, I said if someone decides to disable /dev/random, there should be a _kernel_ function purely for inside-kernel random number generation (for such cases as the BOOP code). I never even thought of replacing /dev/random by anything.
Martin
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