folks -- Can anyone tell me where zLinux gets its entropy? Specifically, I mean what should one tickle to get /dev/random unblocked?
Background ... /dev/random produces a truly random stream, but it will block waiting on entropy from the kernel. Its counterpart, /dev/urandom (unblocking) will not block because it re-uses seeded content, but is considered less secure. On a PC, one can jiggle the mouse to generate random "stuff" which the kernel can use. But I have no usable mouse for a zLinux guest or partition. Applications which read from /dev/random will block while they wait for entropy to build up. What to do to free them? Thanks. -- R; <>< ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
