Alan <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 16:20:46 +0100 > Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
