| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Joe Conway <joseph(dot)conway(at)home(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Dr(dot) Evil" <drevil(at)sidereal(dot)kz>, <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Random strings |
| Date: | 2001-08-09 15:35:13 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.30.0108091733450.698-100000@peter.localdomain |
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Joe Conway writes:
> seconds). The same test with /dev/urandom returns instantly. Perhaps there
> should be an option to use either. For instances where only a few truly
> random bytes is needed (i.e. one session key), use /dev/random. When you
> need many random bytes quickly, use /dev/urandom?
Not sure if this is intuitive. How many bytes is "a few"? Maybe just be
honest about it and name them randomstr and urandomstr or such.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter
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