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SubjectRe: /dev/random blocks forever on 2.2.12 and 2.2.16
FromChristoph Rohland <>
Date11 Aug 2000 10:04:34 +0200
Olaf Titz <olaf@bigred.inka.de> writes:

> > better to periodically get randomness from /dev/random, and then use
> > that as seeds for a cryptographically secure, pseudo-random number
> > generator.
> 
> Isn't that basically what /dev/urandom does?
> (Yes I'm using urandom for session keys...)

To do that /dev/urandom should only be functional after getting some
seed from /dev/random. And it does not work like that. It will happily
give you data without anything from external sources.

Just my 2 cents
		Christoph

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