On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 9:18 PM Bill Cunningham <bill.cu1234@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > How would you access randomization at the system level? No via > srand or rand, but the randomization the system offers through > /dev/random. Would this be a fedora level system call ? > > I intend to take a 512 or 1024, for example, size chunk and fill > that with system randomization. Not what you get with srand and rand I > believe they are inferior to system randomization. You should use /dev/urandom nowadays, not /dev/random. According to Theodore Ts'o on the Linux Kernel Crypto mailing list, /dev/random has been deprecated for a decade. >From Re: [RFC PATCH v12 3/4] Linux Random Number Generator:[1] Practically no one uses /dev/random. It's essentially a deprecated interface; the primary interfaces that have been recommended for well over a decade is /dev/urandom, and now, getrandom(2). [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/20/993 _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
