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He said there's no such thing as entropy depletion for urandom after it's been seeded. But the seed still has to come from somewhere, and one possible source f
by sillysaurus3 12y ago
He said there's no such thing as entropy depletion for urandom after it's been seeded. But the seed still has to come from somewhere, and one possible source for that seed is /dev/random.
- nitrogen 12y ago/dev/random actually points to the same RNG as /dev/urandom, according to http://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/ http://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/ (and other sources I recall reading but can't find). So you wouldn't use /dev/random to seed /dev/urandom, but you (or the kernel) might use something else to seed both.