On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >> > And isn't srandom sometimes (very rarely!) appropriate? E.g. for >> > generating encryption keys?
If arandom is somehow not appropriate for generating keys, it should be fixed. I'd be interested to hear more. > I notice arandom doesn't pause. Is arandom always better or only when > there's enough entropy? It is more efficient. There is almost always enough entropy for arandom, and if there isn't, you would have a hard time detecting that.
