On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 06:40:02PM +0100, Roberto Ragusa 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.
How are you testing? The wikipedia article says: Non-random data is harmless, because only a privileged user can issue the ioctl needed to increase the entropy estimate. SO -- Matthew Miller <mat...@mattdm.org> Senior Systems Architect Cyberinfrastructure Labs / Instructional & Research Computing Computing & Information Technology Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences -- 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
