Timeline for Feeding /dev/random entropy pool?
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| S Mar 24, 2020 at 14:45 | history | suggested | Yuri | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Improve formatting a bit
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| Aug 3, 2011 at 9:19 | comment | added | Nakedible | You are confusing two things. /dev/random is secure enough for password generation without additional entropy - so feeding stuff in to /dev/random is not needed for security, but it might be needed for performance. /dev/urandom is also secure enough for passwords, but it does not have the performance problem /dev/random has, so it should be preferred. | |
| Jul 14, 2011 at 12:56 | comment | added | tkit | your 1) and 2) are opposite to each other -> /dev/random depletes... that is exactly why I asked how to additionaly feed it.. | |
| Jan 17, 2011 at 5:46 | history | answered | D.W. | CC BY-SA 2.5 |