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Re: [patch #6797] shred option to use internal RNG
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: [patch #6797] shred option to use internal RNG |
Date: |
Sun, 05 Apr 2009 10:54:44 +0200 |
James Youngman wrote:
> Follow-up Comment #5, patch #6797 (project coreutils):
>
> IMO both /dev/urandom and /dev/random should be used as sources of data for
> seeding PRNGs, as opposed to being used as sources of random data directly.
> My rationale for this is that even using /dev/urandom for large quantities of
> data will exhaust the system's entropy pool.
Good idea.
Can anyone think of an application in which shred
would have to use higher-quality random data?
- Re: [patch #6797] shred option to use internal RNG, (continued)
- [patch #6797] shred option to use internal RNG, Jim Meyering, 2009/04/01
- [patch #6797] shred option to use internal RNG, Steven Schveighoffer, 2009/04/01
- [patch #6797] shred option to use internal RNG, Eric Blake, 2009/04/01
- [patch #6797] shred option to use internal RNG, Steven Schveighoffer, 2009/04/01
- Re: [patch #6797] shred option to use internal RNG, Pádraig Brady, 2009/04/02
- Re: [patch #6797] shred option to use internal RNG, Jim Meyering, 2009/04/02
- Re: [patch #6797] shred option to use internal RNG, Steve Schveighoffer, 2009/04/02
- [patch #6797] shred option to use internal RNG, James Youngman, 2009/04/05
- Re: [patch #6797] shred option to use internal RNG,
Jim Meyering <=
- Re: [patch #6797] shred option to use internal RNG, Pádraig Brady, 2009/04/05
- Re: [patch #6797] shred option to use internal RNG, Pádraig Brady, 2009/04/06
- [PATCH] maint: remove compiler warnings from randint and randread modules, Pádraig Brady, 2009/04/06
- Re: [patch #6797] shred option to use internal RNG, Jim Meyering, 2009/04/07
- Re: [patch #6797] shred option to use internal RNG, Pádraig Brady, 2009/04/07
- Re: [patch #6797] shred option to use internal RNG, Pádraig Brady, 2009/04/07
- Re: [patch #6797] shred option to use internal RNG, Jim Meyering, 2009/04/07
- Re: [patch #6797] shred option to use internal RNG, Steve Schveighoffer, 2009/04/07