/dev/random and linux security issues (kinda long)

Derek Martin invalid at pizzashack.org
Sun May 15 01:52:01 EDT 2005


On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 01:07:36AM -0400, aluminumsulfate at earthlink.net wrote:
> dave at bat$ dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1 count=64 | ./string2dec.pl | ./dec2base95.pl 
> 64+0 records in
> 64+0 records out
> 64 bytes transferred in 0.001558 seconds (41076 bytes/sec)
> Bm ?n`zp>4R>f4fC\>>u*HCkHRp*%%%Ha>M\/WW f4a94kaz* Wk4p/*Hf/*Mzz%%C>C *z%MRa4pZ

You seem to have used /dev/urandom for this test...

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