On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 7:17 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> http://egd.sourceforge.net/

> EGD is an Entropy Gathering Daemon ...
> It is a regular user-space program that sits around, running
> programs like 'w' and 'last' and 'vmstat', collecting the randomness
> (or at least the unpredictability) inherent in the output of these
> system statistics programs when used on a reasonably busy system.

There are several other user space entropy gathering programs.
I discuss my design for one and several others in the PDF here:
ftp://ftp.cs.sjtu.edu.cn:990/sandy/maxwell/

Peter Gutmann's daemon (included in his cryptlib library, link in
my paper) is along basically the same lines as yours.
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