[Cryptography] CCC: Filippo Valsorda /dev/random v /dev/urandom

Henry Baker hbaker1 at pipeline.com
Thu Dec 31 15:41:38 EST 2015


FYI -- (Bottom line: use /dev/urandom )

The plain simple reality of entropy
Or how I learned to stop worrying and love urandom

Slides (1.5 MBytes):

https://speakerd.s3.amazonaws.com/presentations/81e3194277914b21b7bc92425975ee9c/Entropy_32c3_16-9.pdf

(https://filippo.io/entropy-talk-ccc)

30-min video talk (312 MBytes)

http://cdn.media.ccc.de/congress/2015/h264-hd/32c3-7441-en-de-The_plain_simple_reality_of_entropy_hd.mp4



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