Re: how to make /dev/random work?

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On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:33 PM, <consume.noise@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Am 28.08.2009 um 08:41 schrieb loody:
>>
>> Dear all:
>> I made linux running on Mips machine.
>> Right now I found the /dev/random doesn't work properly, since I use
>> "dd if=/dev/random of=/tmp/random.txt", it stops working.
>> If I use "cat /dev/random", it will not pop out anything.
>
> Maybe, it just blocks do to missing entropy.

Adding that, try to type randomly on keyboard, read files, send
packets to network and so on.

Also try to compare that by accessing /dev/urandom. I guess it will be
just fine.

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Mulyadi Santosa
Freelance Linux trainer
blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com

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