Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I'm slightly troubled by claims such as this one: > <http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/12/msg01950.html> [which says: "If you're going to use /dev/urandom then you might as well just not encrypt the session at all."]
That claim is totally bogus, and I doubt whether that poster has any clue about this subject. As far as we know, Linux's /dev/urandom is just fine, once it has been seeded properly. Pay no attention to those who don't know what they are talking about. (That poster wants you to believe that, since /dev/urandom uses a cryptographic-strength pseudorandom number generator rather than a true entropy source, it is useless. Don't believe it. The poster is confused and his claims are wrong.) --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
