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Date:      Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:52:15 +0100
From:      RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Get available entropy
Message-ID:  <20080412025215.1958d78c@gumby.homeunix.com.>
In-Reply-To: <20080412014122.748e7ded.ghirai@ghirai.com>
References:  <20080412014122.748e7ded.ghirai@ghirai.com>

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On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:41:22 +0300
Ghirai <ghirai@ghirai.com> wrote:

> Hey,
>=20
> Is there an app in the base install that can show the available
> entropy? Also, how would you do this programatically?

=46rom 5.0 onwards FreeBSD uses Yarrow for  /dev/random. It never
blocks, and only keeps entropy stats for triggering reseeds.



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