From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Pseudo-random number generator
To: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@de.ibm.com>,
       linux-crypto <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 18:33:01 +0100
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Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 16:20:46 +0100
> Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@de.ibm.com> wrote:

>> Yes, a user can just symlink urandom to prandom and will have a faster
>> generator.
> 
> 
> More usefully they can use it as an entropy source with an entropy
> daemon to feed it into the standard urandom/random.

Only if other users will randomly drain /dev/prandom, otherwise you might
as well use /dev/zero.
-- 
Ich danke GMX daf?r, die Verwendung meiner Adressen mittels per SPF
verbreiteten L?gen zu sabotieren.

http://david.woodhou.se/why-not-spf.html
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