A system call for random numbers: getrandom()

Posted Feb 11, 2016 8:59 UTC (Thu) by akostadinov (guest, #48510)
In reply to: A system call for random numbers: getrandom() by eternaleye
Parent article: A system call for random numbers: getrandom()

Other users of urandom should not cause urandom to become less secure. As some comments pointed out, other users or urandom may even increase urandom entropy (by making it's internal state less predictable).

A good read why `random` is not good idea http://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/