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Re: /dev/random needs an upgrade

From: gilles chehade (chehad_gepita.fr)
Date: Fri Apr 01 2005 - 11:55:32 CST


on Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 01:16:08PM -0300, Fabio Olive Leite wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 03:07:29PM +0000, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> > We need donations to refill /dev/random.
>
> I just ran the following here:
> $ sudo nc -v -l 17 </dev/urandom
>
> So you can quickly connect to olive.homeunix.org:17 and share some of
> my randomness. If enough people share their random bits as well we can
> surely fill even /dev/null!
>
> fabio.olive
>

i dont think bits from urandom are suitable for random :|

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