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It seems that you're just complaining that some applications read from /dev/random, but you wish they would read from /dev/urandom. If I understand you correct
by marvy 10y ago
It seems that you're just complaining that some applications read from /dev/random, but you wish they would read from /dev/urandom. If I understand you correctly, then it seems there exists a simple solution. (Disclaimer: I don't use Linux, or any other Unix. I may not know what I'm talking about.)
mv /dev/random /dev/badrandom
ln -s /dev/random /dev/urandom # is this the right syntax?
Or something like that?
- ryuuchin 10y agoI'm not sure it's that simple. Someone mentioned a solution somewhere in this thread relating to if you're using udev. It still won't give you the block until seeded behavior but my post gave the solution to that (seed it yourself at system start (which most distro's may already do)). It should be possible to give /dev/random the same behavior as /dev/urandom I just haven't really looked into it.