[TriLUG] need help, netcat as a traffic generator?

[Tanner Lovelace]

On 8/24/06, Michael Tharp <gxti at partiallystapled.com> wrote:

> Does urandom even use entropy? I thought it was an independent
> pseudo-random generator, unlike /dev/random which will block until it
> gets enough entropy.

Yes, /dev/urandom uses entropy.  /dev/urandom is what's called a
"cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator" that
uses the entrophy in the system to seed it.

Cheers,
Tanner
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