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| author | MichaelBanck <MichaelBanck@web> | 2008-11-24 19:20:52 +0000 |
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| committer | GNU Hurd web pages engine <web-hurd@gnu.org> | 2008-11-24 19:20:52 +0000 |
| commit | 114ed23ae6fdf4cb021e7cfbbdbde3367fc89e8f (patch) | |
| tree | 60d23b66cdf4472b4305e0a2cab2dcda896e374a /hurd/running/debian/faq | |
| parent | 9ed5865d3e05e461dd5dc7e0351721723ab5ea58 (diff) | |
add note about random-egd package
Diffstat (limited to 'hurd/running/debian/faq')
| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/running/debian/faq/dev_random.mdwn | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/hurd/running/debian/faq/dev_random.mdwn b/hurd/running/debian/faq/dev_random.mdwn index 0043699e..eee7d0be 100644 --- a/hurd/running/debian/faq/dev_random.mdwn +++ b/hurd/running/debian/faq/dev_random.mdwn @@ -12,4 +12,6 @@ is included in the section entitled There is no random device by default as no secure implementation has been finished yet. An easy (but very insecure) work-around is to copy a binary file -like `/bin/bash` to `/dev/random` and `/dev/urandom`. +like `/bin/bash` to `/dev/random` and `/dev/urandom`. A slightly more secure +alternative is installing the `random-egd` from the `debian-ports` repository. + |