Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 14:06:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: James Wyatt <jwyatt@rwsystems.net> Cc: "Andrew J. Korty" <ajk@iu.edu>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cryptographic dump(8) Message-ID: <200005032106.OAA65010@apollo.backplane.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005031304120.21115-100000@bsdie.rwsystems.net>
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:How can you tell how much entropy is in the 'pool' for /dev/random and
:it's about to start being not-so-random? Pull a sample once in a while and
:Chi test it? I like being able to know. - Jy@
I suppose you could, but since /dev/random is system-wide it should
be very random.
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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