On 5/25/2023 10:19 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
... 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). I guess I didn't specify as I thought I did.
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