Re: [Sks-devel] why does SKS have /dev/random open for writing?

[Kristian Fiskerstrand]

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On 09/19/2013 07:41 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On 09/19/2013 01:39 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
>> gentoo1 sks # lsof /dev/random COMMAND   PID USER   FD   TYPE
>> DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME sks     11839 root    3r   CHR    1,8
>> 0t0 1157 /dev/random sks     31332 root    3r   CHR    1,8
>> 0t0 1157 /dev/random
> 
> hm, so it's open for reading on gentoo but writing on debian?
> weirder and weirder.  Which version of cryptokit is this linked
> against?  is it stock sks 1.1.4 or from the hg tip or some other
> variant?

hg tip of the master branch using cryptokit 1.7


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