[Ach] Proposal of Random-number section

[christian mock]

On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 08:48:49PM +0100, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote:
> Attached I've written a proposal for the random-number section.
> I've tried to incorporate the information from the recent discussions.
> Please check if everything you care for is there.

Great section!

One thing I'd add in the linux subsection is that one can

cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail

and see how much (or little) entropy the kernel thinks it has. I think
it is instructive to see that even on a desktop machine (i.e. one with
much external user input) the entropy can be only about 100 bits.

cm.

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