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Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 01:38:37 -0300
From: Javier Villavicencio <javierv@migraciones.gov.ar>
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Subject: Re: no entropy and no output at /dev/random  (quick question)
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Javier Villavicencio wrote:
 >
 > # cat /dev/random (5 minutes, the server working, nothing)
 > ctrl+c
 > # cat /dev/urandom
 > <snip> (lots of randomness)

Playing with my desktop machine (which is newer and completely different 
from the servers) I've found that I run out of entropy -REALLY FAST-, 
even this one is supposed to have those hardware random stuff generators.

Is this a normal behaviour?, or, I think i've readed this somewhere, 
it's encouraged to use /dev/urandom instead of /dev/random?

Salu2.

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       Javier Villavicencio
      Administrador/Consultor
Direccion Nacional de Migraciones
      Ministerio del Interior
       Republica Argentina
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