[PLUG] Re: WipeInfo Equivalent

Wil Cooley wcooley at nakedape.cc
Thu Dec 21 20:57:51 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 12:38 -0800, Russ Gilman-Hunt wrote:

> Just out of curiosity, what makes urandom so much better, and why don't
> we just link /dev/random to /dev/urandom? 

JFWPI:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//dev/random

In short, /dev/urandom contains less entropy (it's "less random")
than /dev/random, but /dev/urandom will produce w/o blocking,
whereas /dev/random will block (will seem to stall/take much longer to
generate a given given number of random bytes).

Wil
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Wil Cooley <wcooley at nakedape.cc>
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