Strange thing (/dev/random)

From: David Schwartz (davids@webmaster.com)
Date: Tue Nov 21 2000 - 18:03:19 EST


        I noticed something odd with the entropy pool in 2.4.0-test11. If a normal
user does a 'sysctl -A', the entropy pool empties. I'm not sure why, but it
sounds like this isn't a good thing from a security standpoint.

        DS

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