"Wilkinson,Alex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can someone recommend to me where I can read up on > entropy. > > ie what it is ? Why we have it ? etc etc
The term "entropy" is often used (in rough analogy to its technical meaning in thermodynamics) in computer systems to describe the "amount" of "randomness" available to random-number functionality. What to read depends on why you need to know about it, but you could always refer to some manual pages, particularly rndcontrol(8). To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
