atom feed8 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-auditRe: The ball starts rolling
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Dan MoschukNov 26, 1999 7:47 pm 
Warner LoshNov 26, 1999 7:49 pm 
Chris D. FaulhaberNov 26, 1999 7:59 pm 
Dan MoschukNov 26, 1999 8:06 pm 
Dan MoschukNov 26, 1999 8:13 pm 
Kris KennawayNov 26, 1999 8:34 pm 
Kris KennawayNov 26, 1999 8:34 pm 
Warner LoshNov 26, 1999 8:40 pm 
Subject:Re: The ball starts rolling
From:Warner Losh (im@village.org)
Date:Nov 26, 1999 8:40:18 pm
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-audit

In message <1999@november.jaded.net> Dan Moschuk writes: : Absolutely nothing. Last I checked, they used RC4, which is fairly fast and : efficient for the kernel. However, I'm still debating whether or not it's : actually _needed_. IMHO, OpenBSD takes somethings beyond the point of : paranoid overkill, but in this secnario I don't think it would hurt either
way.

The theory here is that you don't want someone to be able to predict the pid, otherwise it is useless to try to do random pids because they won't be random. In this case I tend to agree...

Warner

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