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Russell: Sources of Randomness for Userspace

Russell: Sources of Randomness for Userspace

Posted Apr 6, 2012 14:18 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Russell: Sources of Randomness for Userspace by Cyberax
Parent article: Russell: Sources of Randomness for Userspace

Note that every exec() sucks more data out of the pool, to seed the AT_RANDOM auxv entry.


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