Re: [Sks-devel] why does SKS have /dev/random open for writing?

[John Clizbe]

Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> hi SKS folks--
> 
> I was just looking at the behavior of sks 1.1.4, and i noticed that it
> seems to have /dev/random open for writing:
> 
> 0 zimmermann:~# lsof /dev/random 
> COMMAND PID       USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
> sks     742 debian-sks    3w   CHR    1,8      0t0 1244 /dev/random
> sks     756 debian-sks    3w   CHR    1,8      0t0 1244 /dev/random
> 0 zimmermann:~# 
> 
> this is not read/write (which would be marked as 3u instead of 3w), but
> write-only (presumably appending) to the character device.
> 
> I'm not clear on why this is happening.  I don't see /dev/random
> referenced explicitly in the source.  Anyone have any clue about what
> it's doing?  This is happening for me on debian systems -- can users of
> other systems confirm or deny that this is happening for them as well?
> 
> Maybe it's an artifact of one of the ocaml libraries sks depends on?
> I'm not sure how i'd debug that to verify it.

cryptlib?

Just my guess.


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