[Ach] Proposal of Random-number section

Wolfgang Breyha wolfgang.breyha at univie.ac.at
Sat Nov 30 21:53:52 CET 2013


On 2013-11-30 20:45, christian mock wrote:
> 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.

Should we mention rngd in the Linux section?

Servus,
Wolfgang
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