TRC> There is no reason in modern cryptography to read more than one byte TRC> from /dev/random ever in a single application; once you have done TRC> that, or confirmed some other way that the the entropy pool is seeded, TRC> you should generate keys from /dev/urandom.
DAH> There should be some way to do that without throwing away 8 random DAH> bits. Isn't that called poll()/select() etc? As far as I understand, it's not about actually reading from /dev/random, but checking whether you could read without blocking, isn't it?
