On 04/17/2015 12:41 PM, Reco wrote:
And 'shred' uses /dev/urandom in turn:
$ strace -e trace=file shred -s 100M - > /dev/null
…
open("/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY) = 3
Although, according to strace, 'shred' cheats and only reads 2k bytes
from /dev/urandom, and not 100m as 'dd' does.
'shred' probably uses /dev/urandom to seed and periodically re-seed an
internal PRNG.
[Perl's Math::Random::ISAAC::XS] doesn't seem to use kernel-based entropy at
all. Thank
you for pointing me out at it, now I know it so I avoid it.
ISAAC is very useful when I want a repeatable stream of random numbers,
such as for testing.
ISAAC can generate cryptographically secure random number streams by
feeding it a "good" random seed:
2015-04-17 14:22:23 dpchrist@t2250 ~
$ time dd if=/dev/random bs=16 count=1 2>/dev/null | perl
-MMath::Random::ISAAC::XS -e
'$r=Math::Random::ISAAC::XS->new(@ARGV);while(print $r->irand){}' | dd
iflag=fullblock of=/dev/null bs=1M count=100 2>/dev/null
real 0m18.350s
user 0m18.305s
sys 0m0.256s
David
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