how does that contradict the person you're replying to? surely it would be a non-blocking read that would return empty. you seem to be saying that apps genera

how does that contradict the person you're replying to? surely it would be a non-blocking read that would return empty. you seem to be saying that apps generally should need /dev/random only rarely. which seems sensible, but is also what the post one up suggested. in short you seem to be in confused and annoyed agreement. [vaguely related interesting post on urandom quality - http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/3936/is-a-rand-from-dev-urandom-secure-for-a-login-key/3939#3939 http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/3936/is-a-rand-f...]