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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KShred compile troubles.
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-05-31 7:32:36
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On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 06:27:23PM -0700, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Tue, 30 May 2000, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> > On Die, 30 Mai 2000, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > > It needs cryptographicly strong random numbers, so I would use
> > > KApplication::random().
> >
> > /dev/random is stronger.
> 
> Forget what I said. Listen to Dirk :-)

;-)... I thought /dev/random wasn't portable ?

> KApplication uses /dev/urandom, but only to initialize, see you shouldn't let 
> non-experts do crypto :-)

That's the exact reason why... I'd gladly let this matter in other hands.

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