On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 15:13, Jason Holt wrote: > One other point I just looked up - while /dev/urandom isn't /truly/ random, > it's still an extremely good source of randomness. It keeps an internal state > that's influenced by truly random numbers, then runs it through the SHA1 hash. > So unless you're worried about SHA1 being broken, which almost nobody is, it's > totally fine to use it for anything you'd use /dev/random for.
And in fact it's better for most things because it will handle the load better. -- Stuart Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED], AIM:StuartMJansen> âThe programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.â -- Fredrick Brooks, Mythical Man Month
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