Henry Spencer
Wed, 4 Aug 1999 05:16:56 -0700
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, bram wrote:
> The goal is to make it so that any time someone wants random numbers they
> can go to /dev/random, with no required studying of entropy and threat
> models and all that yadda yadda yadda which most developers will
> rightfully recoil from getting into when all they want is a few random
> bytes.
That, surely, is what /dev/urandom is for. (Maybe /dev/random ought to
be mode rw-------, so that only root applications can use it?)
Henry Spencer
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