From bacee1aeb09ad0f1d03c0725f351a6db5ccc9884 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 15:16:39 +0100 Subject: hurd/running/debian/faq/dev_random: Split out. Written by Michael Banck. --- hurd/running/debian/faq/dev_random.mdwn | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) create mode 100644 hurd/running/debian/faq/dev_random.mdwn (limited to 'hurd/running/debian/faq') diff --git a/hurd/running/debian/faq/dev_random.mdwn b/hurd/running/debian/faq/dev_random.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f2a3c908 --- /dev/null +++ b/hurd/running/debian/faq/dev_random.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[meta license="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled +[[GNU_Free_Documentation_License|/fdl]]."]] + +# `/dev/random` + +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`. -- cgit v1.2.3