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Subject: Re: /dev/random question
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On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 02:20:17 -0700
"Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of RW
> > Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 1:56 PM
> > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: /dev/random question
> >
> >
> > That's a poor analogy  because they haven't improved /dev/random so
> > it doesn't block, they've taken a /dev/urandom implementation and
> > renamed it. In terms of your analogy they've blocked off the road,
> > diverted everyone onto the highway, and renamed it to main street.
> >
> > Using Yarrow for /dev/random is not an intrinsically bad idea, but
> > it is controversial.
> 
> I really don't see what the issue is here.  If you really want a
> /dev/urandom on your system then fine - symlink /dev/random
> to /dev/urandom and be done with it.

My point was that Yarrow is a good choice for /dev/urandom but a
controversial choice for /dev/random, so it would have been nice to
have a choice as to whether  /dev/random uses Yarrow or a conventional
pool-based implementation.