Olaf Titz <olaf@bigred.inka.de> writes:
> > better to periodically get randomness from /dev/random, and then use
> > that as seeds for a cryptographically secure, pseudo-random number
> > generator.
>
> Isn't that basically what /dev/urandom does?
> (Yes I'm using urandom for session keys...)
To do that /dev/urandom should only be functional after getting some
seed from /dev/random. And it does not work like that. It will happily
give you data without anything from external sources.
Just my 2 cents
Christoph
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