Re: zap stats and ioctl from rnd
On 11/22/10 01:16, Ted Unangst wrote: is any of this useful? has anybody ever manually stirred the random device or tried interpreting the nonsense spit out by sysctl We stir it in the installer, FWIW.
Re: zap stats and ioctl from rnd
On 11/22/10 01:35, Alexander Hall wrote: On 11/22/10 01:16, Ted Unangst wrote: is any of this useful? has anybody ever manually stirred the random device or tried interpreting the nonsense spit out by sysctl We stir it in the installer, FWIW. Hmmm... For my definition of stirr, which I just realized may differ from the code's, and from reading the diff, I cannot say anymore. :-) We feed stuff into /dev/urandom. That's what I was referring to. No more no less. /Alexander
Re: zap stats and ioctl from rnd
On 11/22/10 01:16, Ted Unangst wrote: is any of this useful? has anybody ever manually stirred the random device or tried interpreting the nonsense spit out by sysctl We stir it in the installer, FWIW. Using the xxxwrite() entry point.
