Re: user-mode port 0.56-2.4.18-15
David Wagner (daw@mozart.cs.berkeley.edu)
10 Apr 2002 21:14:10 GMT
Jeff Dike wrote:
>pavel@suse.cz said:
>> Why don't you just feed your /dev/random from hosts /dev/random?
>
>That would open up DOS attacks on the host. A nasty person inside a UML
>could drain the host's /dev/random and hang anything on the host that needs
>random numbers.
Why not feed your /dev/random from the host's /dev/urandom?
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