On 5/26/08, Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For example, reading a lot of data from linux's /dev/urandom will
> deplete the entropy pool in the kernel, which effectively makes reads
> from /dev/random stall. The two devices uses the same entropy pool.
That's a bug in the way the kernel hands out entropy to multiple
concurrent consumers. I don't think it's a semantic issue.
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