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Re: Performance thoughts
From: Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 16:17:28 -0700
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 01:06:30AM +0200, Diman Todorov wrote:
Yes /dev/urandom should perform better but it is not really random. I have run into problems with it's short period before.
Are you sure you aren't thinking of rand() or something else? I don't think /dev/urandom has a period. Or at least not one we're likely to ever encounter in our lifetimes. It doesn't block on entropy like /dev/random, but I think the risk is extremely limited even for most cases where "secure" random numbers are truly needed. In any case, even /dev/urandom is overkill for Nmap's needs. It just needs "somewhat random looking" IPIDs, sequence numbers, port orders, etc. Cheers, -F _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev
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