On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 5:43 PM, Stephan Mueller <smueller@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Personally, I don't really use /dev/random, nor would I recommend it >> for most application programmers. At this point, getrandom(2) really >> is the preferred interface unless you have some very specialized >> needs. > I fully agree. But there are use cases for /dev/random, notably as a seed > source for other DRNG. Is that really the case? I believe all DRNG's use /dev/urandom anyway for seeding since they cannot afford indeterminate blocking. It would be a gain for everyone if /dev/random was the same as /dev/urandom in Linux. regards, Nikos -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
