In message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Peter Hendrickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Apple apparently only accepts bug reports from members of the Apple
Developers Connection. If any such members are on this list, it
might be a good idea to submit a report:
It's a /dev/urandom which has been labeled /dev/random. It claims
to be a Yarrow implementation so is presumably only 160 bits strong.
(See http://www.counterpane.com/yarrow-notes.html.)
From http://www.hmug.org/man/4/urandom.html:
/dev/urandom is a compatibility nod to Linux. On Linux,
At 05:01 PM 8/28/2003, Peter Hendrickson wrote:
First, the entropy pool in Yarrow is only 160 bits. From Section 6
Open Questions and Plans for the Future of the Yarrow paper
referenced above:
Yarrow-160, our current construction, is limited to at most 160 bits
of security by the size of its
