Apps Dev opinion needed - is this a scam ?

[Tourniquetch]

On this app (which has to run with root, mind you)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.androguide.pimp.my.rom&hl=en

One of the, uh, "selling points" is "Entropy Generator: Android uses randomness for many different things like UUID generation, SSL keys, session keys, etc ... This randomness is provided by /dev/random which is a very small, limited and slow entropy pool, and when the system runs out of entropy it will start lagging".

As a programmer (but not Android, which is why I'm asking here), that sounds like outright nonsense and a scam. Is there something I don't know about how randomness works on Android, or is my assertion that this sounds super shady right ?

 

[truehybridx]

On this app (which has to run with root, mind you)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.androguide.pimp.my.rom&hl=en

One of the, uh, "selling points" is "Entropy Generator: Android uses randomness for many different things like UUID generation, SSL keys, session keys, etc ... This randomness is provided by /dev/random which is a very small, limited and slow entropy pool, and when the system runs out of entropy it will start lagging".

As a programmer (but not Android, which is why I'm asking here), that sounds like outright nonsense and a scam. Is there something I don't know about how randomness works on Android, or is my assertion that this sounds super shady right ?

http://www.xda-developers.com/android/entropy-seed-generator-not-all-its-hacked-up-to-be/

XDA has already come to the conclusion that the Entropy generator thing is bogus and the usual fix for that makes things "less secure"

But as far as any of the other features go, its worth a try

 

[Tourniquetch]

Thanks, that was a very helpful read.