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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 00:17:16 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Jeff Dike <jdike@karaya.com>
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Subject: Re: user-mode port 0.56-2.4.18-15
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Hi!

> > Why don't you just feed your /dev/random from hosts /dev/random? 
> 
> That would open up DOS attacks on the host.  A nasty person inside a UML
> could drain the host's /dev/random and hang anything on the host that needs
> random numbers.

Okay, make it /dev/urandom ;-).

									Pavel
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