Re: How to develop a random number generation device

On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 15:48:35 -0700, Joel Kolstad wrote:

"Nobody" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:pan.2007.09.17.22.37.49.78000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
With modern hardware (e.g. 80286 and later running in protected
mode), the address space of one process (or the OS kernel) simply isn't
"visible" to another process.

True, but if you can manage to create a buffer overflow in a kernel process
(the TCP/IP stack being a common target here, often implemented as a
kernel-level driver), you have the keys to the kingdom.

I suppose neither of you has ever heard of a "chroot jail".

Cheers!
Rich


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