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Diffstat (limited to 'hurd/running/debian/faq/dev_random.mdwn')
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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. + |