[email protected] wrote (18 Dec 2012 22:18:28 GMT) : >> Hi, >> >> adrelanos wrote (16 Dec 2012 18:19:44 GMT) : >>> - Do they block each other or result in even more entropy available? >>> [...] >>> haveged only ~1100 and ~4000 >>> randomsound and haveged ~1100 and ~4000 >> >> Isn't this capped by /proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize ?
> No. > https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man4/random.4.html Thanks. The read-only file entropy_avail gives the available entropy. Normally, this will be 4096 (bits), a full entropy pool. The file poolsize gives the size of the entropy pool. The semantics of this file vary across kernel versions: [...] Linux 2.6: This file is read-only, and gives the size of the entropy pool in bits. It contains the value 4096. I admit I've not checked the code, but in my understanding of this documentation, it confirms the available entropy is capped by the entropy pool size. _______________________________________________ tails-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev
