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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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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