Re: urandom vs haveged

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On 03/30/2012 01:02 PM, David Sommerseth wrote:

That sounds reasonable.  Unless I mix /dev/random and /dev/urandom,
the latter blocks until it has filled up the entropy pool again.

Eh, the FORMER (/dev/random) blocks until it has filled up the entropy pool again. I seem to remember that urandom is a PRNG seeded with data from /dev/random; it never blocks.

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