On Thu, 1 May 2008, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > Andrew Morgan wrote: >> >> Cyrus IMAP calls out to the sasl libraries to generate the APOP challenge. >> On my Debian Etch system, libsasl2.so uses /dev/random. > > That is strange! sasl in Debian Etch is compiled against /dev/urandom. And > so my system confirms: > > cyrus:/usr/lib# strings libsasl2.* | grep random > /dev/urandom > /dev/urandom > /dev/urandom > /dev/urandom Ooops! And that would be true if I had ran that command on my Debian Etch system instead of my old Debian Sarge system... :) For the record: Debian Sarge sasl uses /dev/random Debian Etch sasl uses /dev/urandom Andy ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
