Re: randomness (crypto?) code example wanted please?

Thor Lancelot Simon <[email protected]> Mon, 26 Jun 2017 11:11:01 -0400

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On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 03:22:07PM +0100, Roy Marples wrote:
> 
> Just like sh, dhcpcd can start very early .... sometimwes before enough
> entropy has been generated just to pull blindly from /dev/urandom because it
> can block - or did in the past; it might be fixed now.

No.  Reading from /dev/urandom cannot block, and never could unless the
system on which you observed such behavior had a bug.

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  Thor Lancelot Simon	                                     [email protected]

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