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Since /dev/urandom and /dev/random draw from the same pool, it should be enough to simply read and throw away some bytes from /dev/random.
by caf 13y ago
Since /dev/urandom and /dev/random draw from the same pool, it should be enough to simply read and throw away some bytes from /dev/random.
- tptacek 13y agoThey don't draw from literally the same pool, though their pools are fed through a common mechanism.
- caf 13y agoSure, but if /dev/random supplies me 256 bits without blocking, then the random pool behind /dev/urandom must have been initialised with at least that much estimated entropy by that point too, right?