The perils of security tools

[Steven M. Bellovin]

On Sat, 24 May 2008 20:29:51 +0100
Ben Laurie <ben at links.org> wrote:

> Of course, we have now persuaded even the most stubborn OS that 
> randomness matters, and most of them make it available, so perhaps
> this concern is moot.
> 
> Though I would be interested to know how well they do it! I did have 
> some input into the design for FreeBSD's, so I know it isn't
> completely awful, but how do other OSes stack up?
> 
I believe that all open source Unix-like systems have /dev/random
and /dev/urandom; Solaris does as well.


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb

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