Re: /dev/random in 2.4.6

From: David Wagner (daw@mozart.cs.berkeley.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 20 2001 - 11:00:30 EST


Alex Bligh - linux-kernel wrote:
>OK; well in which case it doesn't solve the problem.

I don't see why not. Apply this change, and use /dev/urandom.
You'll never block, and the outputs should be thoroughly unpredictable.
What's missing?

(I don't see why so many people use /dev/random rather than /dev/urandom.
I harbor suspicions that this is a misunderstanding about the properties
of pseudorandom number generation.)
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