Bug#620957: general: Would you be so kind to include Frandom in the Debian Repositories?
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 07:46, Ruben <spamered@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Package: general
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Hello.
>
> I would like to see Frandom in the Debian repositories. Frandom is a kernel
> module for pseudo-random data generation, much as random and urandom, but works
> incredibly fast.
>
> It is currently unmantained. However, is still usefull. You can have a look in
> http://www.billauer.co.il/frandom.html for more information.
All this module seems to do is grab some data from /dev/urandom and
use it as a key for an RC4 generator. While it's a nice project to
learn about kernel APIs, why should this be in the kernel, widening
the kernel attack surface and thus giving the security team more work,
when it can be in a userspace application or library just as easily?
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