On Saturday 12 February 2005 23:29, Oded Arbel wrote: > And if we are on the subject - is it possible to feed entropy (from a > trusted source of course) into /dev/random so that it is available to > applications ? I was thinking about getting random bits from lavarand or > random.org to fuel my server's /dev/random.
I found a solution to this issue, though I'd appreciate it if someone can offer a better idea. I installed the rng-utils package from http://sf.net/projects/gkernel/ which contains rngd. rngd takes random data from one device (presumably a hardware RNG, but that is configurable) and feeds it into /dev/random. I currently set it to read /dev/urandom (probably a bad idea, I know) and I'll investigate if and how to get it to read random data from one of the above mentioned sources. -- Ided ================================================================= 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]
