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


From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Subject: Re: [Sks-devel] why does SKS have /dev/random open for writing?
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 13:41:56 -0400
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On 09/19/2013 01:39 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
> gentoo1 sks # lsof /dev/random
> COMMAND   PID USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
> sks     11839 root    3r   CHR    1,8      0t0 1157 /dev/random
> sks     31332 root    3r   CHR    1,8      0t0 1157 /dev/random

hm, so it's open for reading on gentoo but writing on debian?  weirder
and weirder.  Which version of cryptokit is this linked against?  is it
stock sks 1.1.4 or from the hg tip or some other variant?

        --dkg
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