Messages in this thread | | | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Date | Tue, 9 Apr 2002 21:53:12 -0600 | Subject | Re: [uml-user] Re: user-mode port 0.56-2.4.18-15 |
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On Apr 09, 2002 20:44 -0500, Jeff Dike wrote: > Doesn't /dev/urandom have exactly the same DOS properties as /dev/random? > I.e. it reads real random numbers until the entropy pool is empty, then > starts returning pseudo-random numbers? If so, things on the host will > still hang when they then try to read /dev/random.
You are correct. Reading from /dev/urandom consumes just as much entropy as reading from /dev/random. It just doesn't block when the entropy pool is random.
Hmm, maybe this should be fixed by refilling the urandom entropy pool much less often...
Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
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