In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Louis A. Mamakos" writ
es:
>In fact, it would be rather interesting to have a configuration flag which
>always forces something like an fsck on a file system in order to provide
>some entropy to the random device. Or some other user-exposed way of
>providing entropy. I might have some data on disk, or some network
>operations which can be performed to help seed the entropy pool.
What we really need is this:
fetch -o http://entropy.freebsd.org/ > /dev/random
with a bunch of volounteers providing random bits to people in need.
I have thought about adding a entropy server to my array of weird
servers in my lab. Something like a Geiger counter and a smokedetector
could do wonders.
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