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Re: Testing 1.3.x on really old box

From: Greg Hudson <ghudson_at_MIT.EDU>
Date: 2006-03-18 01:02:00 CET

On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 14:49 -0800, Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
> APR 1.0+ has apr_random_*. -- justin

That's kind of baroque. Why can't APR just provide a way of getting
at /dev/urandom? That will produce higher-quality random data than
apr_random_* (because it will use as much random seed data as the system
has available, and not some amount guessed by the APR-using application)
and would be much easier to use than having to manually initialize and
seed an in-process PRNG.

Oh well.

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