Ben Laurie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
On Sat, 24 May 2008 20:29:51 +0100
Ben Laurie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Of course, we have now persuaded even the most stubborn OS that
randomness matters, and most of them make it available, so perhaps
this concern is moot.
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withdrawals,
Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
On Sat, 24 May 2008 20:29:51 +0100
Ben Laurie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Of course, we have now persuaded even the most stubborn OS that
randomness matters, and most of them make it available, so perhaps
this concern is moot.
Though I would be interested to know how
On May 24, 2008, at 9:18 PM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
I believe that all open source Unix-like systems have /dev/random
and /dev/urandom; Solaris does as well.
By the way, Solaris is an open source Unix-like system nowadays. ;-)
Regards,
Zooko
On May 25, 2008, at 6:02 AM, Ben Laurie wrote:
I meant: how good are the PRNGs underneath them?
Not a direct answer to your question, but somewhat relevant as context
is Michal Zalewski's analysis of TCP/IP sequence number predictability
across operating systems:
