Replacing /dev/urandom
Replacing /dev/urandom
Posted May 5, 2016 4:17 UTC (Thu) by kokada (guest, #92849)Parent article: Replacing /dev/urandom
So /dev/random and /dev/urandom will be the same, like it is in *BSDs and Mac OS X? And /dev/random will not have entropy estimation anymore? This seems to be much more similar that is used in other systems, and AFAIK seems to be as secure (with the nice benefit of not having "black magic" in the kernel RNG).
Posted May 5, 2016 5:46 UTC (Thu)
by dlang (guest, #313)
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Replacing /dev/urandom
everything I read was about changes to /dev/urandom, not to /dev/random. It looks like that is going to remain pretty much the same (except for the accounting changes that will let you pull more numbers early on)