Package: reseed
Version: 1.1
Severity: normal
After fetching a number sequence from random.org reseed does not convert
them correctly into a byte stream before piping into /dev/urandom as
intentioned. This seems to be due to a typo in the perl script:
# generate a byte stream from the numbers
@bytes = split /\n/, $response->content();
map { chr($_) } @bytes;
[...]
print RANDOM (join "", @bytes);
Changing the map into
map { $_ = chr } @bytes;
fixes this.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.1
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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