Re: One-line password generator
Hello,
On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 09:05:41PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Curt wrote:
> > So this is wrong:
> > https://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/
>
> Dunno. I took my info from the man page.
The article at 2uo.de is correct. The relevant Linux man pages were
recently updated to clarify that once seeded, /dev/urandom is
sufficient for any use and that /dev/random is a legacy interface
for callers that may require it during early boot before the pool is
initialised. The non-legacy interface for such callers is proper use
of getrandom() which will block until the pool is initialised.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71211
Cheers,
Andy
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