Re: ssh, /dev/urandom

[neal@cs.uml.edu (Neal H. Walfield)]

> > Your argument is absurd.  Network security considerations are different
> > than local system security considerations.  We have control over who can
> > have an account on our systems.  We don't necessarily have control over
> > who has access to our IP ports.
> 
> These are all excellent reasons to accurately describe the state of
> the system.
> 
> None of them are reasons to remove functionality.

Which is why your argument is absurd: no one is suggesting that any
software be *removed*.  The question is: do we `ln -s /bin/bash
/dev/random' by default.