[Gllug] Questions arising from the random discussions...

[Martin A. Brooks]

On Mon, August 2, 2010 22:52, Dylan wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> So, where does the stream for /dev/random and /dev/urandom come from and
> what's the difference?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//dev/random

The former blocks on exhaustion, the latter give a continuous stream of
"psuedo-random" data when you run out of entropy.



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