Sunday 09 December 2007 01:46:12 tarihinde Theodore Tso şunları yazmıştı: > On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 12:10:10AM +0200, Ismail Dönmez wrote: > > > As long as /dev/random is readable for all users there's no reason to > > > use /dev/urandom for a local DoS... > > > > Draining entropy in /dev/urandom means that insecure and possibly not > > random data will be used and well thats a security bug if not a DoS bug. > > Actually in modern 2.6 kernels there are two separate output entropy > pools for /dev/random and /dev/urandom. So assuming that the > adversary doesn't know the contents of the current state of the > entropy pool (i.e., the RNG is well seeded with entropy), you can read > all you want from /dev/urandom and that won't give an adversary > successful information to attack /dev/random.
My understanding was if you can drain entropy from /dev/urandom any futher reads from /dev/urandom will result in data which is not random at all. Is that wrong? Regards, ismail -- Never learn by your mistakes, if you do you may never dare to try again. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/