Alan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 16:20:46 +0100
> Jan Glauber <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Yes, a user can just symlink urandom to prandom and will have a faster
>> generator.
>
>
> More usefully they can use it as an entropy source with an entropy
> daemon to feed it into the standard urandom/random.
Only if other users will randomly drain /dev/prandom, otherwise you might
as well use /dev/zero.
--
Ich danke GMX dafür, die Verwendung meiner Adressen mittels per SPF
verbreiteten Lügen zu sabotieren.
http://david.woodhou.se/why-not-spf.html
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