Re: ssh, /dev/urandom
Alfred a écrit :
> With allowing GNU/Hurd _users_ to _use_ an ssh client.
> What exactly prevents them from not using it? They can download the
> random translator and use it,
If they know where to find it. And it's a waste of time. And it makes things
more complex and tricky than they are.
> they can use the copying hack. Nothing prevents them from not usin
> ssh. It also makes them aware that it is insecrue, adding it hides
> this fact
Just add a warning, then.
> Then remove ext2fs or the GNU Mach kernel, since they are broken.
> Without ext2fs the system is completly unusable, without random the
> system is quite usable. Without GNU Mach you don't even have a
> working system.
And ? What's the difference ? In both case we have the choice between a
bad solution, and no solution. With the current state of the system, a
bad solution is less worse.
> Then don't use it. But don't impose _your_ views to others.
> I am not imposing any views on anyway, you can use the random
> translator anyway you like.
You're making things harder and more complex than they should be, with no
real arguments except "_I_ prefer nothing than that".
> I don't care about "secure" random data right now since the system
> usable in a "real life" production computer, but I do care about
> having an ssh client (and server) that works with just an apt-get.
> Copy /bin/bash to /dev/urandom then, use the translator, do what ever
> you want. Nobody is stoping you.
No, but you are making more complex just because you feel like making
things complex...
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