On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 18:31, William Orr wrote: > You'll notice that there's no significant difference between the output > of the two rngs. However, with octrng the dd completed in under a minute > (more entropy in pool). Without, it took several minutes. If you want > time output, I can add that as well.
This doesn't make sense, because that's not how the random device works. The bits userland reads come from a stream cipher (rc4). Always. Regardless of any entropy calculations. The cipher is reseeded from time to time, again regardless of the amount of entropy. No matter how much entropy there is, a lot or a little or none at all, the device always produces output at the same speed.
