[Info-vax] Linux random number devices, was: Re: SSH/SCP sessions hanging for 7 minutes while reading from "/dev/random"

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-09-30, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>
> Within recent Linux kernel versions, /dev/random and /dev/urandom are 
> the same underneath, neither will block post-initialization, and both 
> will produce the same CPRNG values.
>

On the face of it, that change would seem to be a bad idea.

For some applications, it might be more important for them to actually
block until sufficient high-quality values are available.

Do you know the reason for the change ?

Simon.

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