Re: The perils of security tools

2008-05-28 Thread Philipp Gühring
Hi, (it doesn't just slow down a lot). Since /dev/random use depletes the pool directly, it is imperative that wasteful reads of this pseudo-device be avoided at all costs. Yes. Still, some people are using fopen/fread to access /dev/random, which does pre-fetching on most implementations I

Re: The perils of security tools

2008-05-28 Thread The Fungi
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:34:53AM +0200, Philipp Gühring wrote: it is imperative that wasteful reads of this pseudo-device be avoided at all costs. Yes. Still, some people are using fopen/fread to access /dev/random, which does pre-fetching on most implementations I saw, so using