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Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 01:15:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Harlan Stenn <Harlan.Stenn@pfcs.com>
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Subject: Re: /dev/random?
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On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Harlan Stenn wrote:

> When I to read a hunk of data from /dev/random I get a logical EOF pretty
> quickly.
> 
> Is there a way around this?

Yes, use /dev/urandom instead.  /dev/random stops when the entropy pool is
empty.  See the random(4) manpage for details...

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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