On 28 June 2017 at 03:41, Theodore Ts'o <ty...@mit.edu> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 11:41:11AM +1000, Peter Waltenberg wrote: > > And FYI. On systems not backed with hardware RNG's /dev/random is > > extremely slow. 1-2 bytes/second is a DOS attack on it's own without any > > other effort required. > > Please, stop suggesting the use /dev/random. The right answer is > /dev/urandom or getrandom(2). >
a) On Linux. b) If its the right answer, why is there a difference between /dev/random and /dev/urandom? > > - Ted > -- > openssl-dev mailing list > To unsubscribe: https://mta.openssl.org/mailman/listinfo/openssl-dev >
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