Allan Engelhardt <allane@cybaea.com> writes:
> On other motherboards, reading from /dev/random can stall
> indefinitely. This is not a Good Thing. /dev/urandom is fine, but
> not rally better than rand(3) or random(3).
Wrong; it's still a lot better, especially if you have a reasonable
amount of entropy coming in--/dev/urandom uses the same entropy pool
as /dev/random and generates its data using a cryptographically secure
hash function. This is still a lot better (for crypto purposes) than
the simple LCGs used in the standard C library functions.
See the random(4) manpage on your Linux system for more details.
-Doug
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