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and subject line urandom is CSPRNG, so this is not needed
has caused the Debian Bug report #110620,
regarding mkimapdcert should use /dev/random, not /dev/urandom
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Package: courier-imap-ssl
Version: 1.3.9-1
Severity: normal
I'm not exactly clear on the purpose of this, so maybe its ok the way it is,
but /dev/urandom doesnt generate truly random numbers, /dev/random does.
>From the script:
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/usr/lib/courier/imapd.rand count=1 2>/dev/null
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux pyre 2.4.9 #1 Sat Aug 18 23:40:56 EDT 2001 i686
Locale: LANG=English, LC_CTYPE=English
Versions of packages courier-imap-ssl depends on:
ii courier-imap 1.3.9-1 IMAP daemon with PAM and Maildir s
ii courier-ssl 0.35.0.20010807-1 Courier Mail Server SSL Package
ii openssl 0.9.6b-1 Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary a
ii qmail [mail-transport- 1.03-20 Secure, reliable, efficient, simpl
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/dev/urandom is CSPRNG, so it's perfectly safe to use it.
O.
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