On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 02:38:26PM +0200, m...@linux.it wrote:
> On Apr 09, Nicolas François wrote:
>
> > In shadow, I had to use gettimeofday(&tv, NULL);
> > srandom (tv.tv_sec + tv.tv_usec) because many passwords had to be
> > generated per second and by the same process.
> I implemented both t
On Apr 09, Nicolas François wrote:
> In shadow, I had to use gettimeofday(&tv, NULL);
> srandom (tv.tv_sec + tv.tv_usec) because many passwords had to be
> generated per second and by the same process.
I implemented both this and support for /dev/urandom, the patch is
available at http://www.bofh
Hello,
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 10:22:40PM +0200, m...@linux.it wrote:
>
> On Apr 09, Kees Cook wrote:
>
> > Additionally, the code is buggy and not very random:
> >
> > srand(time(NULL) + getpid());
> >
> > This needs to at least use /dev/urandom, or sec+usec as done in shadow.
> Initiali
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