Subject: Re: NFS file handles are guessable.
To: Kevin M. Lahey <kml@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-security
Date: 03/07/1997 09:59:14
On Fri, 07 Mar 1997 09:26:53 -0800 
 "Kevin M. Lahey" <kml@nas.nasa.gov> wrote:

 > Any ideas or plans to add /dev/random?  It sure would make things
 > easier.

Well, plans to add a /dev/random -- sure, I'd love to have one...

...but someone really ought to sit down and design an MI framework for
gathering entropy :-)

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