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I thought that the issue with /dev/urandom was that it wouldn't block when read shortly after startup (when the entropy pool wasn't yet initialized).
by Aaron1011 8y ago
I thought that the issue with /dev/urandom was that it wouldn't block when read shortly after startup (when the entropy pool wasn't yet initialized).
- mmebane 8y agoThat's part of it. Another concern was ensuring that fetching a random number couldn't fail due to file descriptor exhaustion. [1] [1]: https://lwn.net/Articles/605828/ https://lwn.net/Articles/605828/