From: Javier Villavicencio <javierv@migraciones.gov.ar>
To: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: no entropy and no output at /dev/random (quick question)
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 01:38:37 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41A804CD.5070007@migraciones.gov.ar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41A7EDA1.5000609@migraciones.gov.ar>
Javier Villavicencio wrote:
>
> # cat /dev/random (5 minutes, the server working, nothing)
> ctrl+c
> # cat /dev/urandom
> <snip> (lots of randomness)
Playing with my desktop machine (which is newer and completely different
from the servers) I've found that I run out of entropy -REALLY FAST-,
even this one is supposed to have those hardware random stuff generators.
Is this a normal behaviour?, or, I think i've readed this somewhere,
it's encouraged to use /dev/urandom instead of /dev/random?
Salu2.
--
Javier Villavicencio
Administrador/Consultor
Direccion Nacional de Migraciones
Ministerio del Interior
Republica Argentina
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-27 4:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-27 2:59 no entropy and no output at /dev/random (quick question) Javier Villavicencio
2004-11-27 4:38 ` Javier Villavicencio [this message]
2004-11-27 19:20 ` David Wagner
2004-11-28 6:29 ` Herbert Xu
2004-11-29 15:32 ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-11-30 12:49 ` Horst von Brand
2004-11-30 16:48 ` Javier Villavicencio
2005-01-07 19:17 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-11-27 19:24 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-11-27 19:22 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-11-27 19:42 ` Andreas Steinmetz
2004-11-27 21:35 ` David Schwartz
2004-11-27 21:44 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-11-29 22:47 ` Javier Villavicencio
2004-11-29 22:51 ` Javier Villavicencio
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