https://github.com/AGWA/force-urandom

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https://github.com/AGWA/force-urandom

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• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/AGWA/force-urandom
• Owner: AGWA
• License: other
• Archived: true
• Created: 2017-11-20T01:18:16.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-12-23T22:26:47.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-06-25T08:38:37.833Z (4 months ago)
• Language: C
• Homepage:
• Size: 7.81 KB
• Stars: 13
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README
  • License: COPYING

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README

        
**** THIS PROJECT IS DEPRECATED ****

As of Linux 5.19, /dev/random is just as good as /dev/urandom, so it

is generally no longer necessary to force programs to use /dev/urandom.

If you do need to force programs to use /dev/urandom for some reason, you

can use ldpreload-forceurandom.so from .

Original README below:

force-urandom is a tool to force programs to use /dev/urandom instead of

/dev/random, since /dev/urandom on Linux is secure whereas /dev/random

is stupidly slow: https://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/

Just put force-urandom in front of the command you want to run.

For example, to generate a GPG key in a reasonable amount of time,

you could run:

	force-urandom gpg --gen-key

force-urandom works by LD_PRELOADing a shared library which intercepts

open calls and replaces a /dev/random argument with /dev/urandom.

To compile, run `make`.