[39598] in bugtraq
Re: /dev/random is probably not
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Francesco Messineo)
Tue Jul 12 21:21:20 2005
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 07:03:24 +0200 (CEST)
From: Francesco Messineo <frank@ares.ccii.unipi.it>
To: Thomas <tom@electric-sheep.org>
Cc: bugtraq@securityfocus.com, Darren Reed <avalon@caligula.anu.edu.au>,
exon <exon@home.se>
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On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Thomas wrote:
> > Linux cited using keyboard interrupts. How many of those happen on
> > a web server in a rack, in an air conditioned computer room somewhere ?
> > How many happen when you open up your web browser and select your
> > internet banking web site from your bookmarks?
>
> To complete the list, Linux uses:
> - block-device access
well, for the current 2.4 kernel series block device must be different
from i2o type controllers. I have some servers (no keyboard, no mouse)
with only i2o storage that weren't gathering any "entropy" according to
/proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail.
I submitted a patch several times with no luck.
Without the patch the entropy_avail counter was always at 0.
Regards
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