Re: [PATCH v5 0/7] /dev/random - a new approach

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
2016-06-21T07:15:16Z

On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 5:43 PM, Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de> wrote:
>> Personally, I don't really use /dev/random, nor would I recommend it
>> for most application programmers. At this point, getrandom(2) really
>> is the preferred interface unless you have some very specialized
>> needs.
> I fully agree. But there are use cases for /dev/random, notably as a seed
> source for other DRNG.

Is that really the case? I believe all DRNG's use /dev/urandom anyway
for seeding since they cannot afford indeterminate blocking. It would
be a gain for everyone if /dev/random was the same as /dev/urandom in
Linux.

regards,
Nikos