Re: [Sks-devel] sks using dev/random

[Peter Palfrader]

On Thu, 06 Oct 2005, Yaron M. Minsky wrote:

> This appears to come from cryptokit, xavier leroy's ocaml crypto
> library.  I'm pretty sure the RNG is actually used, so it's just an
> open file, and it's at least not obvious to me that that sucks out
> randomness from /dev/random.  (maybe it does on initialization, if
> there is some prefetching from /dev/random at the OS level when it's
> opened.  But I can't imagine there's any ongoing drain.)

Ok, thanks.

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