Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Aug 2001 11:42:10 -0400 | From | Chris Friesen <> | Subject | Re: /dev/random in 2.4.6 |
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Doug McNaught wrote: > > Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com> writes: > > > Why don't we also switch to a cryptographically secure algorithm for > > /dev/urandom? > > It IS cryptographically secure. Have you ever read the manpage?
Oops, my bad. I got errors doing man on urandom, but neglected to try a man on random.
The main reason for my comment was the suggestion by Steve Hill that /dev/urandom was NOT cryptographically secure. Re-reading it, his comment was in the context of generating cryptographic keys, so perhaps I misunderstood what he meant.
Chris
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