Re: /dev/random blocks forever on 2.2.12 and 2.2.16

Olaf Titz (olaf@bigred.inka.de)
Thu, 10 Aug 2000 16:33:44 +0200

> 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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