On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 04:56:26PM +0200, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > Hi, > > Could someone on the list point me to a document that explains the > functionality of /dev/random in FreeBSD in a little more depth than the man > page? In other OS's I've looked at random and urandom are different, here > it's a symlink (talking about RELENG-6 onwards). FreeBSD uses the yarrow algorithm, as mentioned in random(4). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarrow_algorithm http://www.schneier.com/yarrow.html
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