On Thu, 1 May 2008, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> Andrew Morgan wrote:
>>
>> Cyrus IMAP calls out to the sasl libraries to generate the APOP challenge.
>> On my Debian Etch system, libsasl2.so uses /dev/random.
>
> That is strange! sasl in Debian Etch is compiled against /dev/urandom. And
> so my system confirms:
>
> cyrus:/usr/lib# strings libsasl2.* | grep random
> /dev/urandom
> /dev/urandom
> /dev/urandom
> /dev/urandom
Ooops! And that would be true if I had ran that command on my Debian Etch
system instead of my old Debian Sarge system... :)
For the record:
Debian Sarge sasl uses /dev/random
Debian Etch sasl uses /dev/urandom
Andy
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