On 5/26/08, Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For example, reading a lot of data from linux's /dev/urandom will > deplete the entropy pool in the kernel, which effectively makes reads > from /dev/random stall. The two devices uses the same entropy pool.
That's a bug in the way the kernel hands out entropy to multiple concurrent consumers. I don't think it's a semantic issue. -- Taral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Please let me know if there's any further trouble I can give you." -- Unknown --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]