At 11:45 -0400 2007/06/14, Raul Miller wrote:
On 6/14/07, Joey K Tuttle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:pgseed =: 3 : '9!:1 {. _2 (3!:4) (4?4){ host ''dd if=/dev/random bs=4 count=1'''I believe /dev/urandom is almost always a better choice than /dev/random /dev/random is, theoretically, less predictable than /dev/random However, I've never seen any practical explanations of how to exploit this distinction (other than by compromising the whole machine, but if that's the case you have much bigger problems). On the other hand, /dev/urandom always responds immediately, while /dev/random may stall for an arbitrary length of time.
Yes, that is the distinction, that urandom will respond even if the pool is low - but by reading only 4 bytes from random, I have never encountered a delay. The wikipedia article does discuss the differences etc. I guess I could drop the p from my verb's name ... ( just GoodSEED :) Is there a similar/good solution in Windows? - joey ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
