Re: Random seed and possible blocking of /dev/random

[Claus Assmann]

On Sat, Jan 06, 2001, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:

> That would be a good idea, I think.  Personally, I'd say
> /etc/.egd-socket rather than /etc/egd-socket.  This removes some
> possibilities for "accidents" as well.  Yes, this is security by
> obscurity...

Please don't use /etc, it's for configuration files, not for files
which are changing all the time. That should be /var.  *BSD and
Solaris seem to have /var/run (at least my boxes do), so that might
be a good candidate.
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