Re: anyone using security/dropbear?

From: Brian Reichert (reichert_at_numachi.com)
Date: 09/29/05

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    Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:16:23 -0400
To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>

    On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 02:14:13PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
    > Check the source.. is it using /dev/urandom (which never blocks), or
    > /dev/random (which I still don't think blocks, but may return short
    > reads). Either way, it sounds like some level of application bug...it
    > probably should be using the former source, but even if it's not, it
    > shouldn't be blocking.

    ktrace shows /dev/random, and indeed, very short reads.

    Let me try another maunal build, pushing it to /dev/urandom.

    Thanks for the quick feedback...

    > Kris 

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