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Re: K1 images - final report?



Alfred a écrit : 

 >    I find it a little odd that you need to have /dev/urandom for
 >    openssh to work, I thought openssh was ported to plenty of systems
 >    that don't have and never had any /dev/u?random.

 > Open SSH does collect its own random data (from ps, and whatever else)
 > + from /dev/random and /dev/urandom.  Now, why does it _have_ to use
 > /dev/urandom? Ask the OpenSSH people. :)

/dev/urandom is _not_ cryptographically secure random data. It's fast, cheap
random data. Nothing more. And the random translator is not so bad for that.
Don't think /dev/random and /dev/urandom are the same, they are not.

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