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Re: The perils of security tools
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Taral)
Tue May 27 09:51:32 2008
Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 14:19:37 -0700
From: Taral <taralx@gmail.com>
To: "Simon Josefsson" <simon@josefsson.org>
Cc: Cryptography <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
In-Reply-To: <87iqx1ifn9.fsf@mocca.josefsson.org>
On 5/26/08, Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> wrote:
> For example, reading a lot of data from linux's /dev/urandom will
> deplete the entropy pool in the kernel, which effectively makes reads
> from /dev/random stall. The two devices uses the same entropy pool.
That's a bug in the way the kernel hands out entropy to multiple
concurrent consumers. I don't think it's a semantic issue.
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Taral <taralx@gmail.com>
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