In brief: Adding entropy by writing to /dev/[u]random doesn't appear
to be working. I am aware that the reported available entropy (via
/proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail) will not increase; the symptom
is /dev/random keeps spitting out the same numbers.
I have two embedded boards (one ARM, o
On 5/29/07, Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 12:53:10PM +0100, M Macnair wrote:
Ok, so this is telling me a couple of things. First of all, if you're
only getting three outputs, it means that you don't have any
peripherals feeding entropy into the
On 5/29/07, Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi!
> > I have two embedded boards (one ARM, one PowerPC), running two
> > different versions of 2.6. They have no hard drives, keyboards or
> > mice. They each have a NIC, but I understand these make no
> > contribution to the entropy pool.
On 29 May 2007 18:58:59 +0200, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"M Macnair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Many distros ship with an init script that saves and restores the
> entropy pool on startup and shutdown. The bit that interests me that
> is
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