Am Dienstag, 21. Juni 2016, 09:12:07 schrieb Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos: Hi Nikos, > 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. For standard approaches, this is true. But there are regulations, notably in the German realm, /dev/random shall be used, at least partially (see AIS 20/31). Ciao Stephan -- 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
