Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 21:40:40 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Dan Moschuk <dan@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The ball starts rolling Message-ID: <199911270440.VAA47969@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 26 Nov 1999 23:07:13 EST." <19991126230713.C18496@november.jaded.net> References: <19991126230713.C18496@november.jaded.net> <19991126224819.A18496@november.jaded.net> <199911270349.UAA47680@harmony.village.org>
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In message <19991126230713.C18496@november.jaded.net> Dan Moschuk writes: : Absolutely nothing. Last I checked, they used RC4, which is fairly fast and : efficient for the kernel. However, I'm still debating whether or not it's : actually _needed_. IMHO, OpenBSD takes somethings beyond the point of : paranoid overkill, but in this secnario I don't think it would hurt either way. The theory here is that you don't want someone to be able to predict the pid, otherwise it is useless to try to do random pids because they won't be random. In this case I tend to agree... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message
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