On May 6, 2007, at 6:11 AM, Janusz A. Urbanowicz wrote:
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 09:03:02PM +0200, Piotr Firlej wrote:On 5/5/07, Philipp Gühring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Hi,Hi, thanks for reply,Here you have a list of random number generators that are available on themarket: http://www.cacert.at/cgi-bin/rngresultsNice list, i have been trying to use /dev/urandom, even have compiled gnupg with changes in configure file where i have changed all /dev/random /dev/srandom to /dev/urandom, but that doesn't help at all.../dev/urandom is bad for your security
Not always. Here is a portion of the man page from OS X:/dev/urandom is a compatibility nod to Linux. On Linux, /dev/ urandom will
produce lower quality output if the entropy pool drains, while
/dev/random will prefer to block and wait for additional
entropy to be
collected. With Yarrow, this choice and distinction is not
necessary,
and the two devices behave identically. You may use either.
That said, it makes sense to know the system you're building on.
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