advapi32: Fall back to /dev/random if /dev/urandom can't be opened, and add warnings if opening either fails
Juan Lang
juan.lang at gmail.com
Wed Oct 15 13:45:55 CDT 2008
Hi Austin,
> FWIW: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urandom
(snip)
> "A software program called EGD (entropy gathering daemon) is a common
> alternative for Unix systems which do not support the /dev/random
> device.
Yep, I know. The problem with using EGD is that there isn't a
standard path to it. Because /dev/urandom is so commonly available,
adding a configuration option and code for such a rarely used feature
didn't seem worth it.
Thanks,
--juan
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