Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 10:58:51 -0500 (EST) From: "David E. Cross" <dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: /dev/random isn't Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980225105444.10984A-100000@phoenix.its.rpi.edu>
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I use /dev/random for a number of things that require secure random numbers. I recently noticed though that /dev/random seemed to be missing large chunks of the region. I decided to capture the random data, and construct a histogram of it. What I found was a bell curve (?!?!?!?), with a slightly large (but acceptable) SD of 0.17; however the low and high ends were 55 and 77 SDs away from the mean! Can anyone else verify this, do I need to change my rndcontrol IRQs? (currently set to the IRQ addresses of my Ethernet cards per the rndcontrol man page) Thank you -- David Cross To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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