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Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 19:22:13 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
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Subject: Re: ProPolice: best way to fill canary
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On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:

> The second method requires to introduce the kern.arnd sysctl
> (KERN_ARND).  FYI, note that NetBSD has kern.urandom (KERN_URND) and
> they define KERN_ARND to be an alias to this.
>
> Your comments will be welcome.
>
> Best regards,
> -- 
> Jeremie Le Hen

I don't see any problem with introducing such a sysctl, if it would make 
the propolice patch simpler.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack