Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 29 Apr 2018 10:05:41 -0700 | From | Sultan Alsawaf <> | Subject | Re: Linux messages full of `random: get_random_u32 called from` |
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On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 04:32:05PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > This is why ultimately, we do need to attack this problem from both > > ends, which means teaching userspace programs to only request > > cryptographic-grade randomness when it is really needed --- and most > > of the time, if the user has not logged in yet, you probably don't > > need cryptographic-grade randomness.... > > IOW moving them from /dev/random to /dev/urandom? > Pavel > > -- > (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek > (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
/dev/urandom isn't cryptographically secure, so that's not an option.
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