On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 11:25 PM, Rickard Bellgrim <[email protected]>wrote:

> I might see an issue in the Botan code. I will verify this with Jack, but
> the issue might be that it breaks out from the for-loop in the
> Device_EntropySource, even if the polling goal is not fulfilled. When
> reading from /dev/random, you might not get all bytes as you requested.
> When returning from the Device_EntropySource, the RNG will notice this and
> continue to the next entropy source type. Thus not even trying the
> /dev/urandom.
>

Fixed in Botan 1.10.6
http://botan.randombit.net/relnotes/1_10_6.html

// Rickard
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