Subject: Re: replace kernel random number function
To: <>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/23/2000 15:43:39
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 12:41:35AM +1100, Simon Burge wrote:
> itojun@iijlab.net wrote:
> 
> > 	deraadt told me that i should not replace random(9), as there can be
> > 	some code depending on poorness, or uniformity, of random(9).
> 
> ???  Can you/he point to some examples of this?  Sounds a little bit
> suspect to me...

Who _does_ call random(9), anyway? (Other than tcp isn generation?)

	-is

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