On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote:
I'm still fuzzy on how to find out if that's the cause. as I wrote in an ealrier message, "cat /dev/random" doesn't seem to block ...
If it *is* demonstrably the cause in many instances, why isn't the default for SASL to use /dev/urandom?
/dev/urandom is not cryptographicly secure.
From all I've heard it is "secure enough". Obviously YMMV ...
Any ideas regarding my first question?
Thanks, Sebastian Hagedorn -- Sebastian Hagedorn M.A. - RZKR-R1 (Gebäude 52), Zimmer 18 Zentrum für angewandte Informatik - Universitätsweiter Service RRZK Universität zu Köln / Cologne University - Tel. +49-221-478-5587
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