Messages in this thread | | | From | "David Schwartz" <> | Subject | Strange thing (/dev/random) | Date | Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:03:19 -0800 |
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I noticed something odd with the entropy pool in 2.4.0-test11. If a normal user does a 'sysctl -A', the entropy pool empties. I'm not sure why, but it sounds like this isn't a good thing from a security standpoint.
DS
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