On 6/19/06, Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Tim Waugh wrote: > On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 11:13 -0700, Tom London wrote: > >> Printing seemed to work regardless. >> >> /usr/share/hplip/base/slp.py appears to import random and call >> 'random.randint()' >> > > Doesn't seem to require a cryptographically random number here. In > fact, I'm not even sure it needs to be a freshly-random number each > time; perhaps '1' is sufficient. It's just for a transaction ID which > is never checked as far as I can tell. > > Should I patch hplip to use '1' here instead of random.randint() do you > think? > > If it is not needed, I would guess yes. > Tim. > */ >
I would probably 'hack' this by trying to replace this with something simply derived from, say, the clock, since I didn't check how 'xid' is derived, and I don't know what would happen with collisions. [Agreed that this would be just a hack....] tom -- Tom London -- fedora-selinux-list mailing list fedora-selinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-selinux-list
