#14937: Tiny chunks of entropy from /dev/urandom
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Reporter: kallisti5 | Owner: nobody
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Unscheduled
Component: Drivers | Version: R1/Development
Resolution: | Keywords: urandom
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Comment (by waddlesplash):
No, this is only for userland. The kernel random device behaves
differently than this in the BSDs for a reason. For one, random and
urandom behave the same way, and they both block only during the boot
before the pool has been seeded. That way entropy is never "exhausted"
like on Linux.
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/14937#comment:4>
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