On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 04:18:33PM +0200, kinto wrote: > > Alle 13:48, martedì 11 ottobre 2005, Tobias Walkowiak ha scritto: > > in case you have sufficient entropy - yes > > How can I be sure of the entropy in /dev/random? > There's a method to increase that entropy? i dont know the exact algorithms, sorry, i never bothered to look into the sources. but AFAIK any interaction with your computer does the job: surf a lot without a plan, write useless mails, play around like crazy with your mouse and so on. with ongoing time /dev/random gets filled (a little) more and more. maybe i'm wrong but can anyone else tell about the exact methods? cheers tobias -- [id] tw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [net place] www.tobias-walkowiak.de [gpg fingerprint] 02D4 BEF0 988A 7E32 8A16 A244 B2B6 0C2E 25B2 0A1E [message] ><> Jesus loves you <>< - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
