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Re: Why does reading from /dev/urandom deplete entropy so much?

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To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@...>
Cc: Marc Haber <mh+linux-kernel@...>, <linux-kernel@...>
Date: Saturday, December 8, 2007 - 6:03 pm

On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 02:32:05PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:

As long as /dev/random is readable for all users there's no reason to 
use /dev/urandom for a local DoS...

cu
Adrian

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