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getauxval() and the auxiliary vectorgetauxval() and the auxiliary vectorPosted Oct 12, 2012 12:03 UTC (Fri) by njwhite (subscriber, #51848)In reply to: getauxval() and the auxiliary vector by luto Parent article: getauxval() and the auxiliary vector
(with apologies for the embarassing levels of ignorance this likely displays)
Could other applications read your auxiliary vector, and hence the seed you're using? Would this then have much effect on the guessability of subsequent random numbers?
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getauxval() and the auxiliary vector Posted Oct 12, 2012 16:44 UTC (Fri) by mina86 (subscriber, #68442) [Link]
I don't think that's a real problem. The random bytes are not available to outside applications (unless they trace it like debuggers or strace do, but in this case, it would be easier to just read the random seed or just overwrite the seed).
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