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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:20:25 ADT
bram (bram@gawth.com)
Wed, 15 Jul 1998 16:27:21 -0700 (PDT)
On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Bill Frantz wrote:
> Of course, if you assume that your attacker has hacked your machine, you're
> toast. There is nothing you can do.
Just because someone's hacked some kind of access doesn't mean they have
root access - if there are system calls for addSeed() and getRandom() it
would make sense for them to both be available to processes with very low
access levels. Also, with RNGs specifically, there's the issue of hacking
the hardware, which is independent of hacking the software.
-Bram
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:20:25 ADT