Re: Generating randomness in userspace

2011-08-13 Thread Kyle Hamilton
See also http://egd.sourceforge.net/ (Entropy Gathering Daemon, written in perl) -Kyle H On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Vegard Nossum vegard.nos...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've written a small program that gathers randomness from the uncertainty of scheduling between threads/cores in a

Re: Generating randomness in userspace

2011-08-13 Thread Stanislav Meduna
On 13.08.2011 10:09, Kyle Hamilton wrote: See also http://egd.sourceforge.net/ (Entropy Gathering Daemon, written in perl) EGD is meant for systems where the /dev/random is not present/accessible. Assuming the /dev/random takes the entropy from all sources affecting the scheduling of