Quote from: kmfkewm on September 20, 2012, 07:46 amQuote from: Shannon on September 18, 2012, 06:03 pmQuote from: kmfkewm on September 18, 2012, 09:30 am/dev/urandom should be more than good enoughdd9jn, the lead developer of gpg disagrees with this, his opinion is that urandom is certainly not good enough and random is probably not good enough, i don't know why he thinks this though and will have to ask him next time i see him onlinei agree with the both of you though that you don't need to worry about the quality of your entropy pool unless your name is saddam bin laden muhammad ali jihad, i was mainly worried about the speed of the pool since i'm an impatient fuckWell if /dev/random isn't good enough then /dev/urandom can't possibly be.Don't forget that the behaviour of /dev/random and /dev/urandon (as well as other [P]RNGs like /dev/arandom and EGD) vary according to operating system. So far you've both been discussing the Linux specific variation between /dev/random and /dev/urandom.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//dev/random