[Info-vax] SSH/SCP sessions hanging for 7 minutes while reading from "/dev/random"

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Friday, October 1, 2021 at 5:26:04 AM UTC+13, Stephen Hoffman 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.

Not a chance.

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man4/random.4.html
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/understanding-random-number-generators-and-their-limitations-linux
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/324209/when-to-use-dev-random-vs-dev-urandom