From: Alan Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Pseudo-random number generator Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 15:37:06 +0000 Message-ID: <20061201153706.321926f5@localhost.localdomain> References: <1164979155.5882.23.camel@bender> <20061201133924.023289c4@localhost.localdomain> <1164986446.5882.36.camel@bender> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-crypto , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:36587 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S967359AbWLAPbn (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Dec 2006 10:31:43 -0500 To: Jan Glauber In-Reply-To: <1164986446.5882.36.camel@bender> Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-crypto.vger.kernel.org On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 16:20:46 +0100 Jan Glauber wrote: > Yes, a user can just symlink urandom to prandom and will have a faster > generator. More usefully they can use it as an entropy source with an entropy daemon to feed it into the standard urandom/random.