On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 12:53 PM, Rainer Gerhards <[email protected]> wrote: > 2016-02-04 12:38 GMT+01:00 David Lang <[email protected]>: > >> On Thu, 4 Feb 2016, Rainer Gerhards wrote: >> >> what platform doesn't offer _some_ random source? Anything Linux based >> will have /dev/random and /dev/urandom. urandom may not be very good >> quality randomness (by some measurements on some systems), but the kernel >> provides the best that is available. >> > > as I have learnt from someone in the know, urandom is actually very good > quality randomness. Can't quote through whom, though. But I think there are > some academic papers on that topic. >
At least this one blog seems to provide some clear background about /dev/urandom http://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/ The quality of randomness is tightly tied to available entropy. Thus /dev/urandom + haveged is best low-cost choice at these times IMHO. http://www.issihosts.com/haveged/ -- Peter Viskup _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T LIKE THAT.
