On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 02:58:07PM +0200, Lubomir Rintel wrote: > According to random(4) manual, /dev/random is essentially deprecated on Linux > for quite some time: > > The /dev/random interface is considered a legacy interface, and > /dev/urandom is preferred and sufficient in all use cases, with the > exception of applications which require randomness during early boot time; > for these applications, getrandom(2) must be used instead, because it will > block until the entropy pool is initialized. > > An attempt to use it would cause unnecessary blocking on machines > without a good hwrng even when it shouldn't be needed. Since Linux 3.17, > a getrandom(2) call is available that will block only until the > randomness pool has been seeded. > > It is probably not a good default yet as it requires a fairly recent > kernel and glibc (3.17 and 2.25 respectively). Thanks, applied with some cleanup and fixes. -- Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA _______________________________________________ Hostap mailing list Hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/hostap
