Issue #1924 has been updated by alexh. Description updated Status changed from New to Rejected Assignee deleted (0)
There is no reason whatsoever to not use karc4random for mmap offset randomization. ---------------------------------------- Bug #1924: mmap - add mmap offset randomisation http://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/issues/1924#change-12082 * Author: robin.carey1 * Status: Rejected * Priority: Normal * Assignee: * Category: * Target version: ---------------------------------------- Dear DragonFlyBSD bugs, Alex Hornung recently (today ?) added mmap randomisation (security feature), but in his commit he uses: karc4random() When he should really be using the superior kernel random number generator presented to userland via /dev/random and /dev/urandom There are other portions of Kernel code which needs to do the same, e.g. I think OpenBSDs PF Packet Filter uses karc4random() .... ---Files-------------------------------- unnamed (656 Bytes) unnamed (2.11 KB) unnamed (6.49 KB) unnamed (1.58 KB) -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/my/account