Re: Why does reading from /dev/urandom deplete entropy so much?

Alan Cox
2007-12-04T16:52:12Z

> No matter what you consider as being better, changing a 12 years old and
> widely used userspace interface like /dev/urandom is simply not an
> option.

Fixing it to be more efficient in its use of entropy and also fixing the
fact its not actually a good random number source would be worth looking
at however.