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Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 01:48:57PM +0300, Panagiotis Astithas wrote:
> 
> 
>>I' ve had similar symptoms using SSL+Tomcat and I overcame them using 
>>rndcontrol to put some more interrupts (ethernet & clock, IIRC) to seed 
>>the PRNG.
> 
> 
> Using the clock interrupt won't introduce any randomness into the
> PRNG... The randomness that is derived from interrupts comes out of
> the unpredictability of the time gap between them.  That obviously
> doesn't apply to the clock interrupt.

Of course, you are right. Now that I am checking, I see that I actually 
use etherenet & ata.

Cheers,
-- 
Panagiotis Astithas
Electrical & Computer Engineer, PhD
Network Management Center
National Technical University of Athens, Greece