Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: /dev/random blocks forever on 2.2.12 and 2.2.16 | From | Christoph Rohland <> | Date | 11 Aug 2000 10:04:34 +0200 |
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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
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