[PATCH] Always read from /dev/urandom
Volker Lendecke
Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE
Mon Oct 12 18:43:24 UTC 2015
On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 07:38:38AM +1300, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> The main risk would seem to be the abort() on lack of access to
> /dev/urandom, it will be interesting to see if that finds places where
> Samba fell back to poor internal entropy in the past.
Right. But on the other hand -- why would open(/dev/urandom)
ever fail?
Volker
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