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Date:      Tue, 13 Nov 2007 07:19:35 -0800
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Erik Stian Tefre <erik@tefre.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: apache 2.x + php 5.x http post temporary file name non-randomness
Message-ID:  <20071113151935.GA25317@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
In-Reply-To: <4739BCD7.9060801@tefre.com>
References:  <4738B5E4.30901@tefre.com> <20071113035841.GA820@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <4739BCD7.9060801@tefre.com>

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On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 04:03:51PM +0100, Erik Stian Tefre wrote:
> I'd like to find the real reason for the limited number of unique 
> filenames. Maybe it's related to how mkstemp() or its random number 
> generator arc4random(3) is used by php and/or apache?

This sounds like a (good?) subject for discussion on -hackers...

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| Jeremy Chadwick                                    jdc at parodius.com |
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