On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Thierry Moreau <[email protected]> wrote: > If your /dev/urandom never blocks the requesting task irrespective of the > random bytes usage, then maybe your /dev/random is not as secure as it might > be (unless you have an high speed entropy source, but what is "high speed" > in this context?)
I'd like for /dev/urandom to block, but only early in boot. Once enough entropy has been gathered for it to start it should never block. One way to achieve this is to block boot progress early enough in booting by reading from /dev/random, thus there'd be no need for /dev/urandom to ever block. Nico -- _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
