[32688] in bugtraq
Re: [ANNOUNCE] glibc heap protection patch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Thu Dec 4 14:07:46 2003
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 12:42:26 -0500
From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
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On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 08:54:11AM +0100, Han Boetes wrote:
| William Robertson wrote:
| > It seems that this should be patched to use some source of randomness
| > such as /dev/random instead of time().
|
| I ported arc4random from OpenBSD to linux some time ago. All I had to
| do was to change the sysctl:
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| http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/software/arc4random.tar.bz2
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| I think it's a very usefull function.
Can you explain why it's better than the kernel's randomness pool?
Adam
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