Redirect output to urandom and link random to urandom

alexandre alexandre at maloteaux.net
Thu May 26 15:28:56 BST 2016


Hi

I don't fully understand all the deep internals from urandom vs random fight

However as most programs use urandom  (firefox for tls , xca  for certificate, ... ) and onerng is an uninterrupted source of good entropy would it be a good practise to redirect onerng source to /dev/urandom with 'rngd -o /dev/urandom $RNGD_FLAGS' and then launch a second rngd to link urandom to random like this : rngd -r /dev/urandom -o /dev/random. ? 

Best Regards   


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