On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:14:09 +0100, Heiko Schlittermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Other work-around is the rng-tools package. It feeds the random >generator if the entropy gets low. (Source for feeding is a hardware >random generator or /dev/urandom).
Unfortunately, rng-tools needs a hardware random generator, which is kind of seldomly found in today's systems. I don't think that it actually uses /dev/urandom to feed back to the entropy pool - that would be a security nightmare. Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834 -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
