On Mon, 27 May 2002, Ben Laurie wrote:
Hmmm. Well, IMO it should be configurable at runtime, especially since some other OSes have yet more sources of entropy (/dev/arandom for example).
Oh good, that matches the patch I've been working on. I'll post it in a little while. PS: is /dev/arandom common enough for us to add it to the list of devices we search for automatically without having to specify --with-devrandom=<device> [that's a new configure flag my patch will add, btw]? If so, how should the search be ordered?
/dev/random /dev/arandom /dev/urandom
I believe this is correct (however, I believe if you have /dev/arandom you are sure to have /dev/random, so...)
Cheers,
Ben.
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