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Re: [gnutls-dev] Speed of random data generation
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Andreas Metzler |
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Re: [gnutls-dev] Speed of random data generation |
Date: |
Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:12:42 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
On 2007-06-13 Alex Hudson <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 19:45 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > OpenSSL usually is built to use /dev/urandom instead of /dev/random
> > which does not block if you are out of entropy.
> Ah, ok. Does GNUTLS _always_ use /dev/random, or does it depend on what
> you're doing? And is that documented, do you know?
[...]
Hello,
as Werner noted it is not gnutls itself but libgcrypt that does the
actual reading from /dev/random. Afaict libgcrypt only uses
/dev/urandom if /dev/random is not readable.
cu andreas
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Re: [gnutls-dev] Speed of random data generation, Werner Koch, 2007/06/14