On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 5:43 PM, Stephan Mueller [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Personally, I don't really use /dev/random, nor would I recommend it
for most application programmers.  At this point, getrandom(2) really
is the preferred interface unless you have some very specialized
needs.

I fully agree. But there are use cases for /dev/random, notably as a seed
source for other DRNG.

Is that really the case? I believe all DRNG's use /dev/urandom anyway
for seeding since they cannot afford indeterminate blocking. It would
be a gain for everyone if /dev/random was the same as /dev/urandom in
Linux.

regards,
Nikos