anyone using security/dropbear?

Brian Reichert reichert at numachi.com
Thu Sep 29 11:16:25 PDT 2005


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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