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Re: gathering randomness (was are there many active users...)
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In-reply-to: <m31z2sezgw.fsf_-_@yuri.gweep.bc.ca> (message from Brian Edmonds
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Subject: Re: gathering randomness (was are there many active users...)
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guys--
I also ran into problems with the cfs random number generator - on
linux 2.2.12. I also patched it by using /dev/random, which should be
better anyway. I previously posted my patch at
http://schwieters.org/cfs-1.4.0.beta2cds.patch.gz
The patch also fixes ccat and ccname to work with the latest
cfs formats.
Charles
>
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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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