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Re: [ANNOUNCE] glibc heap protection patch


From: Han Boetes <han () mijncomputer nl>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 08:54:11 +0100

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.



# Han


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