Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 15:46:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev/random question Message-ID: <20070917154534.J74117@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <200709161521.39955.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> References: <20070913153630.GA9448@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCCEGHCAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <20070916020126.06cf26ac@gumby.homeunix.com.> <200709161521.39955.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
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> > Not high-handed. Logical. The difference between /dev/random and /dev/urandom > was that /dev/random could block IO if it didn't have enough entropy in systems where /dev/random is separate simply abusing it by cat /dev/random >/dev/null make all other programs using it very very slow. as unix is a multiuser system and /dev/random is readable for all - it wasn't very good.
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