On Mon, 06 Sep 2010, "Clément Hermann (nodens)" wrote:
> Actually SSL is supposed to use /dev/random which provide better 
> randomness (because of better entropy gathered via keyboards and disks, 
> or better yet, hardware RNG), less likely to be predictable than 
> /dev/urandom.

Only if it has a PRNG which it wants to seed.  If it will use the values
directly, it should use /dev/urandom.

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