Re: Linux messages full of `random: get_random_u32 called from`

[Sultan Alsawaf]

On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 04:32:05PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > This is why ultimately, we do need to attack this problem from both
> > ends, which means teaching userspace programs to only request
> > cryptographic-grade randomness when it is really needed --- and most
> > of the time, if the user has not logged in yet, you probably don't
> > need cryptographic-grade randomness....
> 
> IOW moving them from /dev/random to /dev/urandom?
> 								Pavel
> 
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/dev/urandom isn't cryptographically secure, so that's not an option.