On Sun, 26 May 2002, Ben Laurie wrote: > > What about a --with-devrandom=<path> option for people who do want to go > > the /dev/urandom route?
I'm starting to prefer this option I think. > Surely its configurable anyway? Changing the default strikes me as > something that will bite you if you aren't careful! Nope. Currently /dev/random is strictly preferred over /dev/urandom which is strictly preferred over EGD over truerand. I'd think if the user asks for EGD, we should ignore /dev/random even if it exists. And if the user asks for /dev/urandom or /some/other/device, we should prefer that over /dev/random even if it exists. I'm not sure how truerand should fit in, since it's currently just tested for as a last resort and not specifically requested by the user. --Cliff
