Gisle Sælensminde wrote:
> Some people argue that a periodically reseeded cryptographic-quality
> random number generator is as secure as a true random number generator for
> all practical purposes.
[snip]
> I personally can't think of any realistic scenario where /dev/random would
> make you safe
markus reichelt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to create a moderate amount of v3 keys for loop-aes and wonder
> how/if the "openssl rand" implementation differs significantly from
> /dev/random concerning entropy.
>
> In case /dev/random and "openssl rand" are somewhat comparable, I
> would just use the l
Hi,
I need to create a moderate amount of v3 keys for loop-aes and wonder
how/if the "openssl rand" implementation differs significantly from
/dev/random concerning entropy.
In case /dev/random and "openssl rand" are somewhat comparable, I
would just use the latter to create the keys.
However, I
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