Jarod Wilson <jarod@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ted Ts'o wrote: >> Yeah, but there are userspace programs that depend on urandom not >> blocking... so your proposed change would break them. >> ... > But only if you've set the sysctl to a non-zero value, ... > > But again, I want to stress that out of the box, there's absolutely no > change to the way urandom behaves, no blocking, this *only* kicks in if you > twiddle the sysctl because you have some sort of security requirement that > mandates it. So it only breaks things on systems with high security requirements? -- 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
