On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 07:21:18PM -0400, Cliff Woolley wrote: > My question is this: why does APR's configure.in prefer /dev/random over > /dev/urandom? I think it should be the other way around:
IIRC, /dev/random is a "better" source of entropy than /dev/urandom because /dev/random can block waiting for good enough bits gathered from the system while /dev/urandom must always spit out something, so its entropy isn't guaranteed to be as good. If you want to switch it, fine by me though. I bet Ben may chime in here if I'm dead wrong. -- justin
