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Nods You're very unlikely to be continually reseeding your own DBRG with new entropy, so it will be less secure than /dev/urandom, which is. Suspiciously bad
by sago 11y ago
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You're very unlikely to be continually reseeding your own DBRG with new entropy, so it will be less secure than /dev/urandom, which is.
Suspiciously bad advice, there, from what I can see.
- viraptor 11y agoJust as a random counter-example, Openssl does use that method. But it actually seeds from urandom, rather than random... And fails when forking/threading by default. :( But yes, that's not common. (more info: http://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Random_Numbers http://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Random_Numbers)