On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:01 PM, James A. Donald <jam...@echeque.com> wrote: > At startup, likely to be short of entropy. >
> If /dev/urandom seeded at startup, and then seeded no further, bad, but not > very bad. > > If /dev/urandom seeded at startup from /dev/random, then should block at > startup. > > If /dev/urandom never blocks, bad. Should block at startup waiting to > receive 160 bits from /dev/random, and never block again. > I don't follow this - I understand why lack of entropy should block urandom but, why shouldn't it block on a running system that <low_bound? _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
