> "pf" == parv fm writes:
pf> in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
pf> wrote Fernando Gleiser thusly...
>>
>> It is not good to mess with /dev/[u]random more than what's really
>> needed, because you can exhaust the entropy pool
pf> how does /dev/u?random dilute/exhaust? that wouldn't have eve
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>
> Obviously I would suggest the man pages (man 4 random). /dev/urandom
> will never be exhausted. The numbers returned will simply become
> progressively less random. (Random enough for most things, but I always
> use /dev/random to make keys.)
Yes, it
