On Sat, 17 May 2008 12:54:02 -0700 "Chris Peterson" <cpeterso@cpeterso.com> wrote:gpg does for key generation I think the big kicker is the difference between a session key (short lived) and a "real" key such as a gpg key that lives for a long time and is used for multile sessions and with different users (in crypto speak, Alice uses the same random key for Bob, Charlotte and David and potentially for a long time). For a session key, urandom is very likely an acceptable compromise; there's only so much data it's used for. For long term keys I can totally see why /dev/random is used instead. So both have value, just in different circumstances. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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