I believe entropy is somehow obtained from the hardware.
On Fri, May 26, 2023, 12:18 AM Michael Hennebry <hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 25 May 2023, Chris Adams wrote:
> There's also /dev/urandom (which should never "run out" of randomness),
> but IIRC they're the basically same now and neither will block (except
> possibly during boot).
My understanding is that urandom will never run out
because it is an interface to a pseudorandom number generator.
random gets its data from a hardware random number pool.
Correct?
> But if you're writing a program, there's the getrandom() call.
> https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/getrandom.2.html
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