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Re: [ROS] The perils of security tools
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Fri May 23 18:58:02 2008
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Ben Laurie <ben@links.org>
Cc: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>, Robust Open Source <open-source@csl.sri.com>, Cryptography <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 23:33:46 +0200
In-Reply-To: <482A19F2.7020509@links.org> (Ben Laurie's message of "Tue, 13
May 2008 23:45:06 +0100")
* Ben Laurie:
> I must confess that I said that because I did not have the energy to
> figure out the other routes to adding entropy, such as adding an int
> (e.g. a PID, which I'm told still makes it in there).
The PID dependency is there because of the need for fork
support--obviously, the PRNG must return a different key stream in the
parent and child process, but the two cannot communicate with each
other.
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