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
Can someone tell me what the system entopy pool is (and maybe how it works) or
direct me to some documentation on it?
Cameron
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