tech-security: Re: replace kernel random number function

Subject: Re: replace kernel random number function
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
From: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
List: tech-security
Date: 10/22/2000 10:48:34

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To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
Cc: tech-security@netbsd.org, tech-kern@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: replace kernel random number function
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From: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
Date: 22 Oct 2000 10:48:34 -0700
In-Reply-To: Hubert Feyrer's message of "Sun, 22 Oct 2000 17:13:03 +0200 (MET DST)"
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Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de> writes:

> Will that give us random(3) -> random(2)?

No more than we have md5(2)  :)

A syscall for that would be a bad idea.

--Michael