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In balance, Linux 4.8 will bring some much-needed improvements to Linux's urandom implementation. But they still maintain a "meaningful" distinction between ra
by CiPHPerCoder 10y ago
In balance, Linux 4.8 will bring some much-needed improvements to Linux's urandom implementation.
But they still maintain a "meaningful" distinction between random and urandom, which is the most frustrating design smell.
- zeveb 10y agoAnd to think, if Ted Ts'o had understood PRNGs at the time, we could have had a better PRNG a dozen years ago: https://lwn.net/Articles/103653/ https://lwn.net/Articles/103653/ It's so sad.