FreeBSD's urandom versus random

[Peter Gutmann]

"Perry E. Metzger" <perry at piermont.com> writes:

>Not the 5.3 version but I have looked a bit at earlier versions. I was pretty
>scared, frankly.

The "improved" homebrew RNG covers all 5.x versions AFAIK.  The OS X guys did
the same thing BTW, both OSes use a weird Yarrow-derived implementation and
have /dev/urandom pretending to be /dev/random (i.e. /random lies about
entropy).

Peter.


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