6 Feb
2009
6 Feb
'09
00:13
On Thursday February 5 2009, Carlos E. R. wrote:
... They say /dev/random is faster.
I didn't come across that, but I did find someone saying that by using /dev/random you can expose things about the source of entropy on your system in such a way to increase the vulnerability of hashes based upon that random data. It's all far more than the limits of my knowledge of cryptography and the underlying mathematics allows me to say I understand.
-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
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