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gathering randomness (was are there many active users...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Edmonds)
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Subject: gathering randomness (was are there many active users...)
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From: Brian Edmonds <brian@gweep.bc.ca>
Date: 24 May 2000 08:31:59 -0700
In-Reply-To: "Stephen D. Williams"'s message of "Tue, 23 May 2000 15:19:54 -0400"
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"Stephen D. Williams" <sdw@insta.com> writes:
> This is a bit confusing. There should be a kernel message in syslog
> to warn about extended waits. I believe that the problem is that
> /dev/random in Linux is very stringent about gathering enough true
> randomness before returning.
Is this a newer version than 1.4.0beta2 that has been distributed only
to the list? That was the newest version I could find out on the net,
and it knows nothing of /dev/[u]random. It does randomness gathering
with some itimer/setjmp/longjmp hack that I'm sure is way cool, but lost
me entirely. :)
Brian.
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