On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Sid <[email protected]> wrote: > May be make it implementation specific... For Unix/Linux systems atleast > the > implementation should perhaps poll /dev/random which is truly random and > for > windows settle for the best one? >
/dev/random is way too slow for production use, as it blocks on the entropy pool available. For statistical purposes, /dev/urandom is totally fine. -jake
