[39763] in Cypherpunks
Re: "random" number seeds vs. Netscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Horgan)
Thu Sep 21 11:31:53 1995
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 08:24:55 -0700
From: patrick@Verity.COM (Patrick Horgan)
To: perry@piermont.com, karlton@netscape.com
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
Philip L. Karlton said:
>
> I agree, but I have a hard arguing with those that asser that the security
> of UNIX is weak enough that given what we are doing for the patch it will
> be easier to become root from a logged in account than to hack the seed.
>
Why would you have to argue with them? When they say that's it's easier to
become root from a logged in account tell them, "Good, that's just as it
should be!" It's a feature, not a problem!
Patrick
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