On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:02:05 +0100 Heinz Diehl <htd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 24.01.2010, Arno Wagner wrote: > > > "As a general rule, /dev/urandom should be used for everything > > except long-lived GPG/SSL/SSH keys." > > ^^^^^^ > > Why? > > Is the output of urandom somehow more predictable than random? Once the entropy pool is exhausted, yes. Because then the randomness is no longer actual randomness, but pseudo-randomness, and can be predicted if you have the random seed available. _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
