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Re: [ANNOUNCE] glibc heap protection patch

From: Adam Shostack (adamhomeport.org)
Date: Thu Dec 04 2003 - 11:42:26 CST

On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 08:54:11AM +0100, Han Boetes wrote:
| William Robertson wrote:
| > It seems that this should be patched to use some source of randomness
| > such as /dev/random instead of time().
|
| I ported arc4random from OpenBSD to linux some time ago. All I had to
| do was to change the sysctl:
|
| http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/software/arc4random.tar.bz2
|
|
| I think it's a very usefull function.

Can you explain why it's better than the kernel's randomness pool?

Adam

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