[42600] in Cypherpunks
Re: /dev/random for FreeBSD [was: Re: /dev/random for Linux]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Shields)
Tue Oct 31 17:11:59 1995
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: 31 Oct 1995 21:55:58 -0000
From: shields@tembel.org (Michael Shields)
In article <199510311715.TAA05821@grumble.grondar.za>,
Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> wrote:
> forever {
> cat /dev/random > /dev/null
> }
>
> Severely limiting most decent folk's chance at getting PGP to work.
Ideally, if two processes are trying to read /dev/random at the same time,
both would get data at half-speed. Doesn't it work that way already?
--
Shields.
