On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:01:52PM +0100, Richard Atterer wrote: > On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 11:04:16PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > > Depleted entropy is a concern. Also with SE Linux everything is disabled by > > default and you have to enable the operations that are desired. > > But surely depleted entropy is only a concern for /dev/random, not > /dev/urandom? AFAIK, the latter uses a PRNG, which outputs arbitrary > amounts of pseudo-random data. /dev/urandom and /dev/random use the same entropy generator. The only difference is that /dev/random blocks when there isn't enough entropy in the pool, while /dev/urandom continues. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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