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Re: patch: incomplete read from /dev/urandom in libraries/liblutil/entropy.c (ITS#1834)

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Subject: Re: patch: incomplete read from /dev/urandom in libraries/liblutil/entropy.c (ITS#1834)
From: Kurt Zeilenga <openldap-its@OpenLDAP.org>
Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 19:12:13 GMT

Sounds like some implemented /dev/random semantics for /dev/urandom.
/dev/urandom is expected to return the requested PRNG bytes requested.
(/dev/random is expected to return available entropy bytes.)

Kurt

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