Bruce Keats <brucekeats(a)gmail.com> wrote:
[Too little entropy available in /dev/random]
Use /dev/urandom, or (better yet) seed a "good" RNG (e.g., the one in glibc
or Mersenne twister) and criptographically hash its output if really
needed.
[AFAIR, the random pool is only 512 bytes in size, so it can't contain more
"entropy" than that]
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