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/dev/random blocking in seed generators #25

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spudone opened this issue Jan 24, 2022 · 0 comments
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/dev/random blocking in seed generators #25

spudone opened this issue Jan 24, 2022 · 0 comments

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spudone commented Jan 24, 2022

/dev/random will block when it runs out of entropy. This can be avoided by using /dev/urandom instead. For this library, a DevUrandomSeedGenerator should be added.

see:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/324209/when-to-use-dev-random-vs-dev-urandom
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