[OT] Combinatronics WAS Re: /dev/random and linux security issues (kinda long)

[Michael ODonnell]

Not sure if this is relevant but FYI, on my 2.6.5
kernel the byte sequences obtained as shown below
seem to be nicely random no matter how many times
I read them this way:


 ######## modsuse1:~ 274---> dd bs=64 count=1 if=/dev/random | od -x
 0000000 834d df85 ac1a 32a3 15ce fb01 f83e 907a
 0000020 6e68 49ed 4e64 7c47 c4bc 0393 3397 5f86
 0000040 d468 75b9 0253 be22 fddf 9795 b328 7cba
 0000060 b31f f9e5 1e6f 43a0 7dfd d3ca c9c8 36ca
 0000100
 1+0 records in
 1+0 records out