Re: [PATCH 1/3] Make /dev/urandom scalable

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 07:37:39AM -0400, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote:
> Using /dev/urandom directly, yes that doesn't make sense because it
> consistent returns non-uniformly random numbers when used to generate larger
> amounts of entropy than the blocking pool can source

Why do you think this is the case?   Reproduction, please?

					- Ted
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/