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David Wagner <daw@taverner.cs.berkeley.edu> wrote: > > Yes, for almost all purposes, applications should use /dev/urandom, > not /dev/random. (The names for these devices are unfortunate.) > Sadly, many applications fail to follow these rules, and consequently > /dev/random's entropy pool often ends up getting depleted much faster > than it has to be. I agree with your conclusion that applications should use urandom. However, IIRC /dev/urandom depletes the entropy pool just as fast as /dev/random... Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - 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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