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I've heard that reading from /dev/random tends to "steal" entropy from /dev/urandom or something. I'm not sure. But if you only use urandom, you're safe. Her
by loup-vaillant 11y ago
I've heard that reading from /dev/random tends to "steal" entropy from /dev/urandom or something. I'm not sure. But if you only use urandom, you're safe. Here, from a quick search: http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2014/02/25/safely-generate-random-numbers/ http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2014/02/25/safely-generate-random... http://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/ http://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/
- raverbashing 11y agoThen you came to a different conclusion than me, because the text say a lot of times to use urandom There's no stealing with entropy. And once random returns a read the RNG is seeded, period.
- loup-vaillant 11y agoMy memories are foggy, unreliable, and out of date. I did say I was not sure…