Re: [RFC][PATCH] Pseudo-random number generator

On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 16:20:46 +0100
Jan Glauber <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes, a user can just symlink urandom to prandom and will have a faster
> generator.


More usefully they can use it as an entropy source with an entropy
daemon to feed it into the standard urandom/random.
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