Marco Colombo wrote:
>A little question: I used to believe that crypto software requires
>strong random source to generate key pairs, but this requirement in
>not true for session keys.
It is true for session keys, too. Session keys should not be guessable,
so you must use an unpredictable source for them. Fortunately,
/dev/urandom is essentially just as good as /dev/random in this respect.
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