Patch: Stop using /dev/random

Stephan Mueller smueller at chronox.de
Thu Nov 3 22:47:41 CET 2016


Am Donnerstag, 3. November 2016, 13:33:47 CET schrieb Andrey Jivsov:

Hi Andrey,

> Can you please provide references to the statement that Linux makes sure
> that its pool is seeded before the first read from /dev/urandom? Thank you.

This statement is not correct.

Only getrandom(2) guarantees that.

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Ciao
Stephan



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