Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 10:53:12 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: CygWin Subject: Re: /dev/[u]random sources Message-ID: <20020521105312.C4347@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: CygWin References: <3CE64C14.2090705@lapo.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3CE64C14.2090705@lapo.it> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 02:41:56PM +0200, Lapo Luchini wrote: > One othe rlittle thing, why limit the seeding to 512 bytes? > To avoid "spamming" a function that is "slow"? > Wouldn't this delay anyhow go in the caller's thread? A discussion on the OpenSSH developers mailing list (back in 2000 or 2001) convinced me that it doesn't make sense to seed more than a block size. Unfortunately I don't remember the exact reasoning. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/