Re: [Sks-devel] sks using dev/random

[Yaron Minsky]

This appears to come from cryptokit, xavier leroy's ocaml crypto
library.  I'm pretty sure the RNG is actually used, so it's just an
open file, and it's at least not obvious to me that that sucks out
randomness from /dev/random.  (maybe it does on initialization, if
there is some prefetching from /dev/random at the OS level when it's
opened.  But I can't imagine there's any ongoing drain.)

On 10/6/05, Peter Palfrader <address@hidden> wrote:
> My box was getting a little low on entropy sometimes, so I wondered
> which applications used the random devices.
>
> I found out that sks has dev/random open.  I guess there's no good
> reason for sks to require that strong randomness, is there?  At least
> urandom should be used.  Or do I miss something?
>
> address@hidden:~$ sudo lsof -n | grep random
> sks        1314       debian-sks    3r      CHR        1,8               
> 1048810 /dev/random
> sks        1316       debian-sks    3r      CHR        1,8               
> 1048810 /dev/random
>
> Cheers,
> Peter
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