Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 20:34:56 +0200 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Randomness and vi Message-ID: <3A5F4E50.B8FC5A97@FreeBSD.org> References: <200101121653.LAA58236@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <200101121826.f0CIQHI14502@gratis.grondar.za>
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Mark Murray wrote: > > <<On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 01:52:55 -0800, Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> said: > > > > > found out the hard way that vi needs randomness to run when I was doing > > > > vi doesn't need randomness to run. However, some overzealous coder > > may have changed it to waste good randomness when all it needs to do > > is feed its PRNG. I have seen several instances of this (not naming > > names) but did not think to protest. > > Hmm. The whole usr.games area is well infected with srandomdev. IMO, > srandom(time ^ pid) is sufficient. I suspect that in fact vi relies upon mkstemp, which IMHO by definition should use secure RNG. -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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