Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: /dev/random blocks forever on 2.2.12 and 2.2.16 | Date | Thu, 10 Aug 2000 16:33:44 +0200 | From | Olaf Titz <> |
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> 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...)
Olaf
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