I believe entropy is somehow obtained from the hardware. On Fri, May 26, 2023, 12:18 AM Michael Hennebry < henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 25 May 2023, Chris Adams wrote: > > > There's also /dev/urandom (which should never "run out" of randomness), > > but IIRC they're the basically same now and neither will block (except > > possibly during boot). > > My understanding is that urandom will never run out > because it is an interface to a pseudorandom number generator. > random gets its data from a hardware random number pool. > Correct? > > > But if you're writing a program, there's the getrandom() call. > > https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/getrandom.2.html > > -- > Michael henne...@mail.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu > "Occasionally irrational explanations are required" -- Luke Roman > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue >
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