Terrible performance and Upgrade

[Sebastian Hagedorn]

--On Montag, 9. Februar 2004 10:07 Uhr -0500 Rob Siemborski 
<rjs3 at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

> 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
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