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From: Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Marek Novotny GnuPG
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 12:20:11 -0700
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Melzzzzz wrote:
> Mike Easter wrote:

>> The article suggests:
>>
>> sudo rngd -r /dev/urandom
>>
> What's wrong with /dev/random ?
>
If you are asking me why the article recommended urandom instead of 
random, I don't know the answer (yet) and he didn't say.

<clickety clickety>

// Fact: /dev/urandom is the preferred source of cryptographic 
randomness on UNIX-like systems. // 
http://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/  Myths about /dev/urandom - by 
Thomas Hühn - There are a few things about /dev/urandom and /dev/random 
that are repeated again and again. Still they are false.


(That is an interesting/informative article, thanks for the qx.)


-- 
Mike Easter