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submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago (2 children)

server {

name herebedragons.example.com; root /dev/random;

}

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Nice idea! Better use /dev/urandom through, as that is non blocking. See here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

That was really interesting. I always used urandom by practice and wondered what the difference was.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I wonder if Nginx would just load random into memory until the kernel OOM kills it.