On Sat, 2002-01-26 at 14:42, cameron wrote:
> Can someone tell me what the system entopy pool is (and maybe how it works) or
> direct me to some documentation on it?
>
check out man 4 random for the devices and some discusion about the
entropy pool.
Bret
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At 02:42 PM 1/26/02 -0600, cameron wrote:
>Can someone tell me what the system entopy pool is (and maybe how it
works) or
>direct me to some documentation on it?
If you've ever written a program in C (or C++, or a similar language) that
used random numbers, then you're probably familiar with the
At 1/26/2002 02:42 PM -0600, you wrote:
>Can someone tell me what the system entopy pool is (and maybe how it works) or
>direct me to some documentation on it?
In brief, entropy is randomness. The "system entropy pool" is a place where
the system gathers data which it can safely consider random
