* Strange thing (/dev/random)
@ 2000-11-21 23:03 David Schwartz
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From: David Schwartz @ 2000-11-21 23:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
I noticed something odd with the entropy pool in 2.4.0-test11. If a normal
user does a 'sysctl -A', the entropy pool empties. I'm not sure why, but it
sounds like this isn't a good thing from a security standpoint.
DS
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