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LibreSSL's PRNG is Unsafe on Linux [Update: LibreSSL fork fix]

Comment by Reader Richard Yao

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There is no such thing as a "chroot jail" on Linux. You mean a container using a mix of namespaces and device cgroups. I see no reason why /dev/urandom cannot be made available inside containers:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cgroups/devices.txt

If it is not there, the container is likely misconfigured.

| Posted on 2014-07-15 at 19:16:16 UTC by Reader Richard Yao | Reply to This

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