/dev/random vs. /dev/urandom and the krb5 test suite

Simo Sorce ssorce at redhat.com
Thu Jun 18 18:40:00 EDT 2009


On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 15:27 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Ezra Peisach <epeisach at MIT.EDU> writes:
> 
> > Instead of an environment variable - how about a command line
> > option... No ambiguity there, no fear of strange environment
> > variables....  Then you simply need to document it... If an admin
> > starts the program w/ such a feature - they deserve what they
> > get... Also - you can then syslog in big letters - the fact that they
> > enabled this...
> 
> That sounds great to me.

Looks like the best option :-)

Simo.

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