Re: Why does reading from /dev/urandom deplete entropy so much?

On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 04:55:02PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
cryptographically strong stream it'll provide when /dev/random is
tapped? In principle, this'd leave more entropy available for
applications that really need it, especially on platforms that don't
generate a lot of entropy in the first place (servers).


As reported about a month ago, the evidence is that the /dev/random
stream is not cryptographically strong. Collecting uuids generated from
the kernel uuid random generator from the random generator in the kernel
shows abnormal patterns of duplicates.

Pointer, please.

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