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Date:      Sun, 20 Jan 2002 20:34:35 +0000
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
Cc:        des@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Step1, pam_unix srandomdev fix for review 
Message-ID:  <200201202034.g0KKYZt33206@grimreaper.grondar.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020120202615.GF24138@nagual.pp.ru> ; from "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>  "Sun, 20 Jan 2002 23:26:17 %2B0300."
References:  <20020120202615.GF24138@nagual.pp.ru> 

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> > The original crypt(3) salt quantised the time-of-day into
> > 4096 pieces for the salt - how about doing something like
> > that? UUEncode time()|pid()|getuid() might work just fine.
> 
> I agree. But I don't plan to improve PAM in this my fix, I just want to 
> unbreak application first. Someone else can do what you suggest 
> afterwards.

In which case, please don't make your commit. I understand the
problem, and disagree with the fix, so I'll fix it in a different
way myself.

M
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