Alex Bligh - linux-kernel wrote:
>OK; well in which case it doesn't solve the problem.
I don't see why not. Apply this change, and use /dev/urandom.
You'll never block, and the outputs should be thoroughly unpredictable.
What's missing?
(I don't see why so many people use /dev/random rather than /dev/urandom.
I harbor suspicions that this is a misunderstanding about the properties
of pseudorandom number generation.)
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