Messages in this thread | | | From | (David Wagner) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] (0/4) Entropy accounting fixes | Date | 22 Aug 2002 03:27:16 GMT |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: >There are _real_ reasons why a firewall box (ie one >that probably comes with a flash memory disk, and runs a small web-server >for configuration) would want to have strong random numbers (exactly for >things like generating host keys when asked to by the sysadmin), yet you >seem to say that such a user would have to use /dev/urandom.
Such users should be using /dev/urandom anyway. Most apps I've seen that use /dev/random do so out of confusion, not because /dev/random is the right thing to use. - 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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