netscape NSRANDFILE compatible with /dev/random ?

[Frank A Stevenson]

What happens if NSRANDFILE is set to /dev/random ?
will netscape try to read an infinite number of random bytes ?

> ...
> do it.  Instead of reading ~/.pgp/randseed.bin, we now get the name
> of a file from the environment variable NSRANDFILE, and pass that
> file's contents throught the RNG seed hash.  If you decide that its
> safe, you can set the env variable to point to your randseed.bin file,
> or any other file of random bits you care to use.
> ...
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  Frank