"M Macnair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Many distros ship with an init script that saves and restores the > entropy pool on startup and shutdown. The bit that interests me that > is called on startup is (my comments): > if [ -f $random_seed ]; then > cat $random_seed >/dev/urandom # should seed the pool OA Writing doesn't actually work; to get real accounted entropy for /dev/random you need to use a special ioctl. I ran into this problem some years ago and ended up writing http://www.muc.de/~ak/rndfeed.c
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