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Do you have measurements that show that urandom is slower than a SHA1 hash on Linux? I don't have a good sense for how fast/slow the read call is (obviously you
by jstarks 11y ago
Do you have measurements that show that urandom is slower than a SHA1 hash on Linux? I don't have a good sense for how fast/slow the read call is (obviously you can cache the fd across reads).
Also, I can't find references to OS X or any other OS blocking on urandom reads. Can you point me to one?