Hi, > (it doesn't just "slow down a lot"). Since /dev/random use depletes > the pool directly, it is imperative that wasteful reads of this > pseudo-device be avoided at all costs.
Yes. Still, some people are using fopen/fread to access /dev/random, which does pre-fetching on most implementations I saw, so using open/read is preferred for using /dev/random. Implementations can be rather easily checked with strace. Best regards, Philipp Gühring --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
