On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 10:16:05AM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: > On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 01:42:00PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 03:26:47PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: > > > The distinction between /dev/random and /dev/urandom boils down to one > > > word: paranoia. If you are not paranoid enough to mistrust your > > > network, then /dev/random IS NOT FOR YOU. Use /dev/urandom. > > > > But currently, people who use /dev/urandom to obtain low-quality > > entropy do a DoS for the paranoid people. > > Not true, as I've already pointed out in this thread.
I must have missed this. Can you please explain again? For a layman it looks like a paranoid application cannot read 500 Bytes from /dev/random without blocking if some other application has previously read 10 Kilobytes from /dev/urandom. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 3221 2323190 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
