bugtraq - Re: [ANNOUNCE] glibc heap protection patch

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 08:54:11 +0100
From: Han Boetes <han@...ncomputer.nl>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] glibc heap protection patch


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.



# Han