Re: Random strings

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@gmx.net   http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter