*Nods* You're very unlikely to be continually reseeding your own DBRG with new e... | Hacker News

Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

		sago on Sept 1, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Myths about /dev/urandom Nods You're very unlikely to be continually reseeding your own DBRG with new entropy, so it will be less secure than /dev/urandom, which is. Suspiciously bad advice, there, from what I can see.

viraptor on Sept 1, 2015 [–]

Just as a random counter-example, Openssl does use that method. But it actually seeds from urandom, rather than random... And fails when forking/threading by default. :(

But yes, that's not common. (more info: http://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Random_Numbers)

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact