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A system call for random numbers: getrandom()

A system call for random numbers: getrandom()

Posted Jul 31, 2014 16:13 UTC (Thu) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198)
In reply to: A system call for random numbers: getrandom() by eternaleye
Parent article: A system call for random numbers: getrandom()

I'm not sure that /dev/random has "better" or more "real" random numbers than /dev/urandom, when /dev/urandom is fully seeded and initialized it is as good as anything out there. Maybe the only real use case for /dev/random is seeding your own PRNG in userspace, if you are just consuming randomness for cryptographic purposes then /dev/urandom is what you want.


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