* Sven Hartge:
> Um 09:57 Uhr am 30.01.06 schrieb Florian Weimer:
>> * Sven Hartge:
>
>>>> According to my tests, it doesn't. After some discussion with the GNU
>>>> TLS developers, I think it does the right thing and reads from
>>>> /dev/urandom only.
>>> Are you sure?
>> Pretty much. Exim does not read from /dev/random according to strace.
>
> lsof said otherwise. Besides, if it read its seed from urandom, then it
> should not block on a lack of entropy, shouldn't it?
Okay, sarge indeed uses /dev/random:
9576 access("/dev/random", R_OK) = 0
9576 access("/dev/urandom", R_OK) = 0
9576 open("/dev/random", O_RDONLY) = 8
I'm going to do a bit of source code archeology to find out why.
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