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Re: [Nmh-workers] Message-IDs and Content-IDs
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Ken Hornstein |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] Message-IDs and Content-IDs |
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Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:54:39 -0400 |
>> Dumb question time: Do we want to introduce a dependency on /dev/random?
>> Looks like most people have it now.
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>Go for it. It's 2012, and enough other things need a random number supply for
>crypto that you can probably safely consider a system that still doesn't have
>/dev/random as being somewhere between archaic and downright crippled.
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>What still doesn't have /dev/random, and what does software do to compensate?
I'm only mentioning this because we got recent bug reports about
things not working right because of a buggy snprintf() on an ancient
HPUX box. Does the ancient HPUX box in question have /dev/random? Good
question; dunno.
--Ken
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- Re: [Nmh-workers] Message-IDs and Content-IDs, Ralph Corderoy, 2012/07/19
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Message-IDs and Content-IDs, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2012/07/19
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Message-IDs and Content-IDs, Ken Hornstein, 2012/07/19
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Message-IDs and Content-IDs, valdis . kletnieks, 2012/07/19
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- Re: [Nmh-workers] Message-IDs and Content-IDs, Tom Lane, 2012/07/19
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Message-IDs and Content-IDs, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2012/07/19
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Message-IDs and Content-IDs, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2012/07/19