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Russell: Sources of Randomness for UserspaceRussell: Sources of Randomness for UserspacePosted Apr 2, 2012 6:13 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)In reply to: Russell: Sources of Randomness for Userspace by drag Parent article: Russell: Sources of Randomness for Userspace
You don't need more than 16 bytes of entropy, really. You only need enough entropy to seed the PRNG.
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Russell: Sources of Randomness for Userspace Posted Apr 6, 2012 14:18 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Note that every exec() sucks more data out of the pool, to seed the AT_RANDOM auxv entry.
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