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Re: [ANNOUNCE] glibc heap protection patch
From: Adam Shostack <adam () homeport org>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 12:42:26 -0500
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 08:54:11AM +0100, Han Boetes wrote: | William Robertson wrote: | > It seems that this should be patched to use some source of randomness | > such as /dev/random instead of time(). | | I ported arc4random from OpenBSD to linux some time ago. All I had to | do was to change the sysctl: | | http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/software/arc4random.tar.bz2 | | | I think it's a very usefull function. Can you explain why it's better than the kernel's randomness pool? Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume
Current thread:
- [ANNOUNCE] glibc heap protection patch William Robertson (Dec 01)
- Re: [ANNOUNCE] glibc heap protection patch Stefan Esser (Dec 02)
- Re: [ANNOUNCE] glibc heap protection patch William Robertson (Dec 02)
- Re: [ANNOUNCE] glibc heap protection patch Stefan Esser (Dec 03)
- Re: [ANNOUNCE] glibc heap protection patch William Robertson (Dec 03)
- Re: [ANNOUNCE] glibc heap protection patch William Robertson (Dec 02)
- Re: [ANNOUNCE] glibc heap protection patch Stefan Esser (Dec 02)
- Re: [ANNOUNCE] glibc heap protection patch Eugene Tsyrklevich (Dec 02)
- Re: [ANNOUNCE] glibc heap protection patch William Robertson (Dec 02)
- Re: [ANNOUNCE] glibc heap protection patch Han Boetes (Dec 03)
- Re: [ANNOUNCE] glibc heap protection patch Adam Shostack (Dec 04)
- Re: [ANNOUNCE] glibc heap protection patch Jim Knoble (Dec 04)
- Re: [ANNOUNCE] glibc heap protection patch William Robertson (Dec 02)
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- Re: [ANNOUNCE] glibc heap protection patch William Robertson (Dec 04)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: [ANNOUNCE] glibc heap protection patch xenophi1e (Dec 03)
- Re: [ANNOUNCE] glibc heap protection patch Stefan Esser (Dec 04)
- Re: [ANNOUNCE] glibc heap protection patch Troed SĂ„ngberg (Dec 04)
- Re: [ANNOUNCE] glibc heap protection patch Stefan Esser (Dec 04)
- Re: [ANNOUNCE] glibc heap protection patch Marco Ivaldi (Dec 04)