On Monday 03 May 2010 03:10, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>/dev/prandom is hardware supported pseudo random.
>See "Device Drivers, Features, and Commands" page 297 (313 in acrobat)
>http://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/dw/linux390/docu/lk33dd05.pdf
>
>The real random numbers from the crypto cards is available via
> /dev/hw_random See page 294 (310).
>
>If your application needs to use /dev/random, I think there are tools or
>daemons that feed entropy from hw_random into random.
No need for special tools, just do this:
rm /dev/random
ln /dev/hw_random /dev/random
and all apps will use the random numbers from the crypto cards.
- MacK.
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