From: "Bernard Normier" <bernard@zeroc.com>
To: <jonathan@jonmasters.org>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Concurrent access to /dev/urandom
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 18:14:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <002c01c4d669$28ec6e30$6401a8c0@centrino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <35fb2e5904112914476df48518@mail.gmail.com>
>> I use /dev/urandom to generate UUIDs by reading 16 random bytes from
>> /dev/urandom (very much like e2fsprogs' libuuid).
>
> Why not use /dev/random for such data instead?
A UUID generator that blocks from time to time waiting for entropy would not
be usable.
Cheers,
Bernard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-29 23:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-27 20:45 Bernard Normier
2004-11-27 20:56 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-11-27 21:15 ` Bernard Normier
2004-11-27 21:22 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-11-28 20:58 ` Bernard Normier
2004-12-07 23:41 ` Bernard Normier
2004-12-08 1:28 ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-12-08 1:56 ` Bernard Normier
2004-12-08 19:21 ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-12-08 20:15 ` Bernard Normier
2004-12-08 21:56 ` Matt Mackall
2004-12-09 1:57 ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-12-09 2:46 ` andyliu
2004-12-09 4:55 ` Matt Mackall
2004-12-09 2:58 ` Matt Mackall
2004-12-09 21:29 ` Matt Mackall
2004-12-10 4:47 ` Matt Mackall
2004-12-10 16:35 ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-12-10 18:28 ` Matt Mackall
2004-12-10 21:28 ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-12-10 22:23 ` Matt Mackall
2004-12-11 0:22 ` Adam Heath
2004-12-11 1:10 ` Matt Mackall
2004-12-11 17:33 ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-12-11 19:58 ` Adam Heath
2004-12-11 20:40 ` Matt Mackall
2004-12-12 16:19 ` Pavel Machek
2004-12-11 0:19 ` Adam Heath
2004-12-09 3:10 ` David Lang
2004-12-09 4:52 ` Matt Mackall
2004-12-09 6:36 ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-11-29 22:47 ` Jon Masters
2004-11-29 23:14 ` Bernard Normier [this message]
2004-11-29 23:43 ` Sven-Haegar Koch
2004-11-30 2:31 ` David Schwartz
2004-11-30 4:14 ` Kyle Moffett
2004-11-30 8:23 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-11-30 18:50 ` David Schwartz
2004-11-29 23:42 ` David Wagner
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