Taral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
Do you have any references? Several people have brought this up before and have been told that the design with depleting the entropy pool is intentional. Still, the semantics of /dev/*random is not standardized anywhere, and the current implementation is sub-optimal from a practical point of view, so I think we are far away from an even OK situation. /Simon --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
