On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 22:05, William Orr wrote: > > I guess I misunderstood, as I thought that /dev/random dumped the entropy > pool, and that /dev/arandom put the random data through a stream cipher so > that grabbing random data would never block.
That was true some time ago, but since at least 2011 everything behaves identically to what was once /dev/arandom. Assorted other names are kept in /dev for compatibility, their behavior is not different.
