Re: SSH2: "PRNG is not seeded"
On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> Some entropy is available in /cdrom/upgrade/random. Delete a
> sizable proportion from the start of the file before copying to
> /dev/urandom. This is more secure than copying bash to the same
> point!
>
> No it is not. Not unless /cdrom/upgrade/random pulls down entropy
> each time you gennerate the image, boot or whatever. Copying from a
> random point in a random file on the file-system is far more secure
> then the method you noted.
Provided it is from a random point in a file and not from the beginning.
Copying bash directly was the fashon at one stage.
Phil.
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