On Monday 27 June 2011 00:31:40 Dean Takemori wrote: > I found this via freshmeat and I know the old erandom patch hasn't > been updated in forever. > > http://www.issihosts.com/haveged/ > > Anyone have any experience with haveged, especially in regards to (H)LFS? > > > -dean takemori
Also. The original problem with urandom was that it consumed entropy each time it was opened. Since SSP was added to Glibc the kernel people fixed this so that urandom doesn't empty /dev/random down to zero. It has a watermark now, and urandom keeps its own pool. It's not a bad compromise. robert
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