teatotal: Tea-kgen fails on FreeBSD
Subject:
Re: Tea-kgen fails on FreeBSD
From:
Ivan Popov ####@####.####
Date:
2 Jan 2005 16:44:30 +0000
Message-Id: <20050102164427.GA9570@fettuccine.tekno.chalmers.se>
On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 08:42:52PM -0000, Mark wrote:
> FWIW, changing the Makefile.patch to point to /dev/urandom rather than
> /dev/random works for me. I don't know enough about FreeBSD to suggest why
> that would be.
Afaik /dev/urandom always returns as many bytes as asked for, even if it
is forced into producing a pseudorandom sequence,
differing from /dev/random which does not return more bytes than are
guaranteed to be "really random".
Cheers,
--
Ivan
