[157256] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: best way to create entropy?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Oct 11 20:46:22 2012
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAH_OBiffdqVmwspu9f2uzr_cqnExuA_sLp=d0QhOxQWzkSgOZA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 17:43:15 -0700
To: shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Oct 11, 2012, at 5:01 PM, shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> wrote:
> in the past, i've done many different things to create entropy -
> encode videos, watch youtube, tcpdump -vvv > /dev/null, compiled a
> kernel. but, what is best? just whatever gets your cpu to peak or are
> some tasks better than others?
I find that giving a screwdriver and a hammer to a child between the ages
of 4 and 10 will usually do pretty well.
Owen
