On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 10:05:08PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > I'm puzzled as to why, in this day and age, shred (and any other > programs that might need lots of hard-to-guess random numbers) needs > to have its own random number generator. Why can't such programs just > read /dev/urandom? Is it because they need to fall back on something > on hosts that lack /dev/urandom? > > Also, the more I think about it, the less I like folding this stuff > into 'sort'. It really should be a separate program, as it's an ill > fit for 'sort'.
No, we've already had that discussion, long ago. You had a chance to make your arguments before I did all this work. I even made the implementation cryptographically secure to satisfy you. Then we decided it was a good idea. Now I'm wondering if you've just been trying to waste my time. Well, you've succeeded. It's been a very unpleasant experience working with you. Frederik _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
