On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 20:54:40 +0300, Marko Kreen <marko@l-t.ee> wrote: > > The idea is to initially seed Fortuna with randomness from > system and later feed SHA1 of user data into it too. Just > to keep it from degenerating into pure PRNG.
How is fortuna getting entropy? Wouldn't this be better placed in the OS as the source of /dev/urandom rather than as part of Postgres? ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings