On 10-01-07 12:40:02, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > Luca wrote: > > Hi all, > > if I simply write to /dev/random, will that increase the entropy > > of my system? (I'm assuming that the data I'm writing are random > > and that somehow I got them). > > Wikipedia says so. > > My tests say no. > > In particular this brutal approach does not increase the entropy > cat /dev/urandom >/dev/random > (it is stupid to do that, I know, but it's just a test) ...
`man 4 random` says that the current entropy can be read and written from /dev/urandom, not /dev/random. This is used to preserver entropy across reboots. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynel...@georgeanelson.com> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
