"Ph. Marek" <marek@mail.bmlv.gv.at> said:
[...]
> Short summary:
> More and more programs (eg CGI-Scripts) use the PID as pseudo-random number.
> As this isn't really random and easily guessed from the outside (esp. with
> daemons loaded while booting) it's a little bit troublesome.
Then tell them to use /dev/urandom for this.
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