Switch to /dev/urandom - it exists exactly for that purpose. I readThat depends. If no entropy is being generated, then urandom is indeed of poorer quality. If Entropy is being generated, but is being deplated by someone else rapidly, then urandom is probably of indistinguishable quality from random.
through the thread - your assertion that /dev/urandom is "of lower
quality" is wrong.
NICs should not participate in the entropy pool, because they areCan you explain that one, please? I mean, wouldn't /dev/random's entropy be at least as good as it's best entropy source?
exposed to the outside world and can thus be influenced from the
outside, degrading the randomness of the /dev/u?random output..
Shachar
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