On 24.01.2010, Rick Moritz wrote: > Once the entropy pool is exhausted, yes. Because then the randomness is no longer actual randomness, but pseudo-randomness, Yes, urandom is a PRGN. > and can be predicted if you have the random seed available. Thanks for pointing this out again! So I don't have to worry, nobody will get hands on my random seed ever. The time I generated the master key to my partitions is long gone, and so is the random seed. _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt