Messages in this thread |  | | | From | (David Wagner) | | Subject | Re: /dev/random in 2.4.6 | | Date | 21 Aug 2001 18:27:27 GMT |
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Marco Colombo wrote: >A little question: I used to believe that crypto software requires >strong random source to generate key pairs, but this requirement in >not true for session keys.
It is true for session keys, too. Session keys should not be guessable, so you must use an unpredictable source for them. Fortunately, /dev/urandom is essentially just as good as /dev/random in this respect. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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