Message218247
"Depleting the entropy pool" is sort of a nonsense idea that /dev/random has. Nobody should ever be worried about it and nobody should ever use /dev/random. The manpage is wrong and has continued to be wrong because of historical reasons and the people involved not wanting to admit a wart.
Anything that relies on /dev/random isn't well written and is going to randomly block for bad reasons. We can pull as many bytes as we want off /dev/urandom and just forget that /dev/random or /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail even exists. |
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2014-05-11 02:02:47 | dstufft | set | recipients:
+ dstufft, tim.peters, rhettinger, pitrou, ezio.melotti, alex, neologix |
2014-05-11 02:02:47 | dstufft | set | messageid: <1399773767.93.0.419262205717.issue21470@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
2014-05-11 02:02:47 | dstufft | link | issue21470 messages |
2014-05-11 02:02:47 | dstufft | create | |
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