[Cryptography] Random numbers only once

[Kevin W. Wall]

On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 8:16 PM, Richard Outerbridge <outer at interlog.com> wrote:
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> On 2014-02-04 (35), at 19:59:37, Watson Ladd <watsonbladd at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > 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:
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> [....]
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> >> 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

AND??? I wasn't making a comment on whether or not blocking was
a good idea or not. Like I said, that would just be rehashing old posts.
This was only an observation that the implementors could have done
things a lot worse.

-kevin
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