On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 09:42:39PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > I remember having installed openssh on an AIX machines years ago, and > being amazed by the number of sources it collected entropy from. Simple > commands such as "ifconfig -a", "netstat -i" and "du -a", "ps -ef", "w" > provided a lot of entropy. Well.... not as many bits of entropy as you might think. But every little bit helps, especially if some of it is not available to adversary. - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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