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From: | Werner Koch |
Subject: | Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys |
Date: | Thu, 19 Jan 2006 09:48:48 +0100 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:19:59 +0100, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos said: > Indeed and /dev/urandom is adequate for this kind of keys. Only > for long-lived keys such as the private keys /dev/random is used. Said hundreds of times over the years: /dev/urandom drains the same entropy people as /dev/random does. It just does not block but falls back into a PRNG. Other applications in need for some bytes out of /dev/randomj might then stall forever. Salam-Shalom, Werner
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