Phillip Susi wrote: >> I'm mainly wondering why writing stuff to /dev/*random does not change >> the entropy from zero to at least any low non-zero value... > I ran into this the other day myself and when I investigated the kernel > code, I found that writes to /dev/random do accept the data into the > entropy pool, but do NOT update the entropy estimate. In order to do
Heck, you're right. Thanks, that's just the answer I was looking for. > that, you have to use a root only ioctl to add the data and update the > estimate. I am not sure why this is, or if there is a tool already > written somewhere to use this ioctl, maybe someone else can comment? rngd seems to do, from reading the documentation. Greetings, Gunter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
