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From: Jonathan Day <imipak@yahoo.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: /dev/random on Linux
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 14:39:56 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060515213956.31627.qmail@web31508.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (raw)

Hi,

For the three people who don't monitor the security
websites, there are claims that Linux' random number
generator has problems that could potentially be
exploited by an attacker to compromise encryption
algorithms, etc.

http://www.securiteam.com/unixfocus/5RP0E0AIKK.html

(Just because something is claimed does not make it
so, but it's usually worth checking.)

I know there have been patches around for ages to
improve the entropy of the random number generator,
but how active is work on this section of the code?


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             reply	other threads:[~2006-05-15 21:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-15 21:39 Jonathan Day [this message]
2006-05-15 22:41 ` Alan Cox
2006-05-16  2:50   ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2006-05-16  8:15     ` Kyle Moffett
2006-05-16  8:28       ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2006-05-16  8:52         ` Kyle Moffett
2006-05-16 13:54         ` Zvi Gutterman
2006-05-16 20:17           ` Theodore Tso
2006-05-16 20:37             ` Chase Venters
2006-05-17 21:32             ` Theodore Tso
2006-05-16 10:24       ` Alan Cox
2006-05-16 12:46       ` Pavel Machek
2006-05-16 15:04         ` Christopher Friesen
2006-05-16 14:58       ` Michael Buesch
2006-05-16 15:08         ` Johannes Berg

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