Svante Signell, le Mon 16 Jan 2012 21:32:00 +0100, a écrit :
> On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 19:46 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Sebastian Ramacher, le Mon 16 Jan 2012 19:34:58 +0100, a écrit :
> > > Is this a known bug with Hurd's /dev/urandom implementation or does it
> > > behave differently by design?
> > 
> > It's a known behavior.  It's not by design, the random server just
> > does not have the loop to fill the buffer.  AIUI, that behavior is
> > posix-compliant, however.
> 
> Can random-egd generate enough bytes for Hurd? If random-egd can coexist

It can not atm, see the TODO list on the Debian wiki. We should probably
rather fix the C random generator, as it poses problem to a few other
daemons.

Samuel


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