On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 04:24:41PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > why not do something proper and use getentropy() instead?
It's been previously suggested on here that a mail client shouldn't consume entropy from the system each time it starts, because other more important processes may want it. On Intel processors the TSC register is a good source of random seeds (and I believe it's what the GNU mkstemp uses). But coding processor-dependent stuff such as that might be considered messy. (For something *really* messy but not too system-dependent, call mkstemp and use the filename it generated as your seed.) imc
