Brian Henning wrote: > I was about to reply along this line earlier today, before I googled > "urandom"... Assuming it works similarly on all *nix systems (which, I > realize, could be a big assumption), both urandom and random pull from the > entropy pool; the only difference being that random blocks when it runs out, > whereas urandom forges ahead with a pseudo-random generator. At least, > that's how I interpreted what I read.
For the truly paranoid, a brief example on how to reseed the entropy pool with truly random data: http://trilug.pastebin.ca/37948 -- Kevin -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
