bugtraq - Re: [ANNOUNCE] glibc heap protection patch

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Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 12:42:26 -0500
From: Adam Shostack <adam@...eport.org>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] glibc heap protection patch

On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 08:54:11AM +0100, Han Boetes wrote:
| William Robertson wrote:
| > It seems that this should be patched to use some source of randomness
| > such as /dev/random instead of time().
| 
| I ported arc4random from OpenBSD to linux some time ago. All I had to
| do was to change the sysctl:
| 
|   http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/software/arc4random.tar.bz2
| 
| 
| I think it's a very usefull function.

Can you explain why it's better than the kernel's randomness pool?

Adam

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