On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 06:40:02PM +0100, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
You could investigate on how rngd works.
rngd is your friend, if you have a source of entropy. There's a patch
to rngd by Dell at the rngd web site [1] which uses the TPM chip (if
present) to feed the entropy pool and keep it full
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).
Thanks,
Luca
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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
On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 18:40 +0100, 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.
But random(4) does
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
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 07:28:20PM +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
But random(4) does not. Is there some other authoritative source for
this?
Yes. :)
http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v2.6.32/drivers/char/random.c
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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
Tony Nelson wrote:
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
On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 21:42 +0100, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
Tony Nelson wrote:
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
