Message218247
| Author |
dstufft |
| Recipients |
alex, dstufft, ezio.melotti, neologix, pitrou, rhettinger, tim.peters |
| Date |
2014年05月11日.02:02:47 |
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-1.0 |
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Yes |
| Message-id |
<1399773767.93.0.419262205717.issue21470@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
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| Content |
"Depleting the entropy pool" is sort of a nonsense idea that /dev/random has. Nobody should ever be worried about it and nobody should ever use /dev/random. The manpage is wrong and has continued to be wrong because of historical reasons and the people involved not wanting to admit a wart.
Anything that relies on /dev/random isn't well written and is going to randomly block for bad reasons. We can pull as many bytes as we want off /dev/urandom and just forget that /dev/random or /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail even exists. |
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