From: daw@taverner.cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: no entropy and no output at /dev/random (quick question)
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 19:20:28 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <coak1s$suq$1@abraham.cs.berkeley.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 41A804CD.5070007@migraciones.gov.ar
Javier Villavicencio wrote:
>it's encouraged to use /dev/urandom instead of /dev/random?
Yes, for almost all purposes, applications should use /dev/urandom,
not /dev/random. (The names for these devices are unfortunate.)
Sadly, many applications fail to follow these rules, and consequently
/dev/random's entropy pool often ends up getting depleted much faster
than it has to be.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-27 19:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-27 2:59 no entropy and no output at /dev/random (quick question) Javier Villavicencio
2004-11-27 4:38 ` Javier Villavicencio
2004-11-27 19:20 ` David Wagner [this message]
2004-11-28 6:29 ` Herbert Xu
2004-11-29 15:32 ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-11-30 12:49 ` Horst von Brand
2004-11-30 16:48 ` Javier Villavicencio
2005-01-07 19:17 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-11-27 19:24 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-11-27 19:22 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-11-27 19:42 ` Andreas Steinmetz
2004-11-27 21:35 ` David Schwartz
2004-11-27 21:44 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-11-29 22:47 ` Javier Villavicencio
2004-11-29 22:51 ` Javier Villavicencio
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