Luca wrote: > Hi all, > if I simply write to /dev/random, will that increase the entropy of my > system? (I'm assuming that the data I'm writing are random and that > somehow I got them). Wikipedia says so. My tests say no. In particular this brutal approach does not increase the entropy cat /dev/urandom >/dev/random (it is stupid to do that, I know, but it's just a test) You could investigate on how rngd works. -- Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
