Oleg Goldshmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On several occasions I generated millions of integers using > /dev/urandom in a tight loop (read from /dev/urandom, write to a file, > nothing else). I think this should have depleted the pool > significantly.
Actually, As I wrote this I thought that it might not be true - writing to a file could be replenishing the pool fast enough. On the other hand, these writes were probably not terribly random. It's tricky, I agree. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
