Re: VNC authentication weakness

From: Jose Nazario (joseat_private)
Date: Fri Jul 26 2002 - 08:38:46 PDT

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On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Mitch Adair wrote:

> Actually it appears that /dev/urandom does deplete the randomness pool
> in Linux at least (and you sortof concede this later in your post I
> think.) I will quote a comment from
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.19rc1/drivers/char/random.c

maybe i'm missing something, but why not pull a PRNG seed from
/dev/random?

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