Re: Concurrent access to /dev/urandom

From: Adam Heath
Date: Fri Dec 10 2004 - 19:22:16 EST


Is this problem a security issue? On SMP, couldn't an attacker read from
/dev/urandom, then know what other programs have read, and use that to do some
kind of subversion?
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