Re: Entropy Pool Contents

Martin Mares
2006-11-28T17:59:22Z

Hello!

> I still don't see how feeding tons of zeros ( or some other carefully
> crafted sequence ) in will not decrease the entropy of the pool ( even
> if it does so in a way that is impossible to predict ), but assuming it
> can't, what good does a non root user do by writing to random?

Even if so, you should control that by filesystem permissions, not by
in-kernel policy.

Have a nice fortnight
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Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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