[Cryptography] Random numbers only once

Richard Outerbridge outer at interlog.com
Tue Feb 4 20:16:09 EST 2014


On 2014-02-04 (35), at 19:59:37, Watson Ladd <watsonbladd at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 4:55 PM, Kevin W. Wall <kevin.w.wall at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 2:19 AM, Tony Arcieri <bascule at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 9:12 PM, Watson Ladd <watsonbladd at gmail.com> wrote:

[….]

>> As for whether or not /dev/random should block, that has already been
>> discussed at length here and elsewhere. However, I think most of us
>> would concede that blocking is better than returning predictable
>> pseudo-random values to the caller.
> 
> But that only justifies blocking exactly once after boot.

What he said.
__outer

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