Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 17:29:34 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: grog@freebsd.org Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, ache@freebsd.org, cvs-src@freebsd.org, core@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, nate@root.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/fortune fortune.c Message-ID: <20050723.172934.90795601.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20050723230454.GC842@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <42E29269.4030305@root.org> <20050723.131529.31252138.imp@bsdimp.com> <20050723230454.GC842@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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"Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org> writes:
: > not kludge around it with 1980's microsecond technology.
:
: I can't see that there's much of a security implication in fortune.
: But now it's broken again. Does that improve our security situation?
The problem is that if there's something wrong with /dev/random, that
must be fixed. Fortune has no security implications, but if it is
bleating at us that there's a problem, then we must listen to it, not
paper it over.
Warner
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