On 2007-11-06, Ulrich Windl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Steve Kostecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> crypto randfile /dev/urandom
>
> Shouldn't it be /dev/random? (Urandom is not truely random AFAIK)

According to the discussion at http://lwn.net/Articles/185260/ this view
may be FUD.

There is more discussion of /dev/random vs /dev/urandom at:

http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/2007-04/msg00035.html
http://www.google.com/search?q=%2Fdev%2Frandom+vs+%2Fdev%2Furandom

-- 
Steve Kostecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/

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