Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933956AbWKWVpK (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Nov 2006 16:45:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S934093AbWKWVpK (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Nov 2006 16:45:10 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:14478 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933956AbWKWVpI (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Nov 2006 16:45:08 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Gunter Ohrner Subject: Re: Entropy Pool Contents Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 22:43:48 +0100 Message-ID: References: <45660CDA.6090806@garzik.org> Reply-To: G.Ohrner@post.rwth-aachen.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e179249004.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 491 Lines: 9 Jeff Garzik wrote: > Grab an entropy generator like egd or audio-entropyd, etc. I thought about running rngd, but will this be of any help if writing into /dev/*random does not change the entropy from zero on this machine? Greetings, Gunter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/