> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Simon Perreault > <simon.perrea...@viagenie.ca> wrote: > > I'm trying to use /dev/srandom, but I can't get even a single byte out > > of it. > > Independent of other problems, I don't think you should be using > srandom. We should just take that interface away, people see it and > then they want to use it, but it doesn't work the way they want.
Taking it away would first require an extensive audit of the ports tree -- to make sure that the applications in there don't end up choosing something even *worse* than srandom...