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There is no reason to use /dev/random other than cargo culting devs that believe that /dev/urandom can supposedly run out of entropy. Use /dev/urandom. Don't u

There is no reason to use /dev/random other than cargo culting devs that believe that /dev/urandom can supposedly run out of entropy. Use /dev/urandom. Don't use /dev/random. On sane systems (FreeBSD for example), /dev/urandom is a symlink to /dev/random and /dev/random only blocks once, upon startup to gather entropy, after that it never blocks!

obsurveyor 12y ago
I don't think it's a "cargo cult" if the official docs mention and warn about entropy pool exhaustion.
- tptacek 12y ago
  The official docs are wrong.
  - obsurveyor 12y ago
    Then submit a patch to fix them.
    - clarry 12y ago
      Instead of telling other people what to do, maybe you should just do it yourself.
    - cpach 12y ago
      Corey Csuhta filed an issue for this four months ago, but no one has responded to it: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71211 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71211