From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 8 8: 7:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E05FA37B401 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 08:07:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from yertle.kciLink.com (yertle.kcilink.com [216.194.193.105]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7750C43E65 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 08:07:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from khera@kciLink.com) Received: from onceler.kciLink.com (onceler.kciLink.com [216.194.193.106]) by yertle.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A9652178A for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 11:07:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: by onceler.kciLink.com (Postfix, from userid 100) id 1656B3DB8; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 11:07:49 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Vivek Khera To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dilution of /dev/urandom Newsgroups: ml.freebsd.questions References: <20021006005506.W308-100000@atlas.home> <20021006161444.H90352-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar> <20021006235820.GA25131@moo.holy.cow> X-Trace: lorax.kciLink.com 1034088863 77101 216.194.193.106 (8 Oct 2002 14:54:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: daemon@kciLink.com X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new amavisd-new-20020630 (@kci) X-Razor-id: 128c2c45d8ff6f2b7ec9d826e6506f9cc3952bf2 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "pf" == parv fm writes: pf> in message <20021006161444.H90352-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar>, pf> wrote Fernando Gleiser thusly... >> >> It is not good to mess with /dev/[u]random more than what's really >> needed, because you can exhaust the entropy pool pf> how does /dev/u?random dilute/exhaust? that wouldn't have ever pf> occurred in my naive brain; can't the entropy pool be replenished? pf> enlighten please. man 4 random -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-240-453-8497 AIM: vivekkhera Y!: vivek_khera http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message