Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: /dev/random entropy calcs - patch [not related to net devices] | Date | Thu, 23 Aug 2001 01:53:07 +0000 (UTC) | From | (Ton Hospel) |
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In article <9547398.998437243@_169.254.198.40_>, Alex Bligh - linux-kernel <linux-kernel@alex.org.uk> writes: > 2. Anyone have any problem changing fs/proc/proc_misc.c to > register /proc/interrupts to be 0600 instead of 0644 to help > prevent entropy attacks that way?
Yes, i don't want to have to switch to root to read /proc/interrupts because some people have gone utterly paranoid about an attack that's not feasable if you reseed your randum numbers normally at boot. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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