shuff(1) too. robert
On Saturday September 1 2007 05:42:32 am Robert Connolly wrote: > In Coreutils lib/ directory I found rand-isaac.c, which uses getpid() for > entropy, which is used by randread.c, which is used by sort(1) and > shred(1). > > rand-isaac is based on rc4. > > I briefly checked into how it's used for shred(1). shred(1) will try to > use /dev/urandom first, and drop to rand-isaac after. > > This looks like another good place to use /dev/erandom and arc4random(3). > > robert
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