> On 26 May 2023, at 05:18, Michael Hennebry <henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> > wrote: > > 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?
The detail is covered in articles on lwn.net., search for RNG. The implementation has seen a lot of work in the kernel in recent years. As I understand it /dev/urandom and getrandom() access a pool that has entropy added to it so that PRNG quality is as high as possible. But will never run out, as running out breaks systems very badly. Barry _______________________________________________ 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
