linux-kernel - Re: Entropy Pool Contents

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Date:	Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:59:20 +0100
From:	Martin Mares <mj@....cz>
To:	Phillip Susi <psusi@....rr.com>
Cc:	David Wagner <daw-usenet@...erner.cs.berkeley.edu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Entropy Pool Contents

Hello!

> I still don't see how feeding tons of zeros ( or some other carefully 
> crafted sequence ) in will not decrease the entropy of the pool ( even 
> if it does so in a way that is impossible to predict ), but assuming it 
> can't, what good does a non root user do by writing to random?

Even if so, you should control that by filesystem permissions, not by
in-kernel policy.

				Have a nice fortnight
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Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@....cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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