Re: Concurrent access to /dev/urandom
From: Adam Heath (doogie_at_debian.org)
Date: 12/11/04
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Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:19:16 -0600 (CST) To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Is this problem a security issue? On SMP, couldn't an attacker read from
/dev/urandom, then know what other programs have read, and use that to do some
kind of subversion?
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