Aaron S. Joyner wrote:
Just to throw in another data point, you could also use /dev/zero, which
will give you an endless stream of zeros. If you don't care about what
the data is (ie. don't need it to be at least moderately random), using
/dev/zero won't needlessly deplete your systems source of random).
Aaron S. Joyner
Does urandom even use entropy? I thought it was an independent
pseudo-random generator, unlike /dev/random which will block until it
gets enough entropy.
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