On 16/09/11 02:06, Sandy Harris wrote: > On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Michael Rogers <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> http://www.digital-scurf.org/software/randomsound > > > > Thanks, I've had a quick look at the source and it looks promising. > > Unlike Turbid it doesn't try to produce high-quality randomness on its > > own, it just contributes bits to the kernel's entropy pool. > > Turbid can do that too, of course.
True, I should have mentioned that. :-) > What can do damage is increasing the /dev/random entropy > estimate by more than the number of bits you added. That > cannot be done by writing. Increasing the estimate is done > with a root--only ioctl call. Excellent - in that case it seems like running randomsound and/or Turbid as a non-root user would achieve what I wanted. Thanks! Cheers, Michael _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
