Hello, On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 09:05:41PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Curt wrote: > > So this is wrong: > > https://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/ > > Dunno. I took my info from the man page.
The article at 2uo.de is correct. The relevant Linux man pages were recently updated to clarify that once seeded, /dev/urandom is sufficient for any use and that /dev/random is a legacy interface for callers that may require it during early boot before the pool is initialised. The non-legacy interface for such callers is proper use of getrandom() which will block until the pool is initialised. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71211 Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting