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SubjectRe: Why does reading from /dev/urandom deplete entropy so much?
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Sunday 09 December 2007 00:03:45 tarihinde Adrian Bunk şunları yazmıştı:
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 02:32:05PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> >...
> > Sounds like a local DoS attack point to me...
>
> As long as /dev/random is readable for all users there's no reason to
> use /dev/urandom for a local DoS...

Draining entropy in /dev/urandom means that insecure and possibly not random
data will be used and well thats a security bug if not a DoS bug.

And yes this is by design, sigh.

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