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Re: [ANNOUNCE] glibc heap protection patch
- To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] glibc heap protection patch
- From: Han Boetes <han@mijncomputer.nl>
- Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 08:54:11 +0100
William Robertson wrote:
> It seems that this should be patched to use some source of randomness
> such as /dev/random instead of time().
I ported arc4random from OpenBSD to linux some time ago. All I had to
do was to change the sysctl:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/software/arc4random.tar.bz2
I think it's a very usefull function.
# Han