Re: Entropy Pool Contents

[Martin Mares]

Hello!

> I still don't see how feeding tons of zeros ( or some other carefully 
> crafted sequence ) in will not decrease the entropy of the pool ( even 
> if it does so in a way that is impossible to predict ), but assuming it 
> can't, what good does a non root user do by writing to random?

Even if so, you should control that by filesystem permissions, not by
in-kernel policy.

				Have a nice fortnight
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Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@xxxxxx>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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