On 08/14/2015 03:47 PM, Jonas Maebe wrote:

My question is: is FPC built-in PRNG good enough as comparing to /dev/urandom?

No PRNG is suited for that purpose, because every PRNG is by definition predictable and you need unpredictable numbers for IVs.


How should /dev/urandom not be predictable (as any software random generator is) ?

Decent Wifi hubs use hardware of some kind.

-Michael
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