James Youngman wrote: > Follow-up Comment #5, patch #6797 (project coreutils): > > IMO both /dev/urandom and /dev/random should be used as sources of data for > seeding PRNGs, as opposed to being used as sources of random data directly. > My rationale for this is that even using /dev/urandom for large quantities of > data will exhaust the system's entropy pool.
Good idea. Can anyone think of an application in which shred would have to use higher-quality random data? _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
