My 2 bits:
I've ported Ted T'so' PRNG code to a few other systems, so I'm familiar
with it. It should collect entropy from all the system interrupts, including
the network card and pentium TSC (high speed clock) jitter, as well as
the data in some of the kernel buffers. So entropy should collect.
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Subject: Re: saslpasswd and /dev/random
I don't know if it would even relate at all, but I noticed on the
openssl list some comments about /dev/random blocking. I got the
i
I don't know if it would even relate at all, but I noticed on the
openssl list some comments about /dev/random blocking. I got the
impression that using prngd might actually be better(?) faster(?)
than using /dev/random on some systems. Openssl 0.9.7 when released
will even be able to automatica
