Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 27 Nov 2004 01:38:37 -0300 | From | Javier Villavicencio <> | Subject | Re: no entropy and no output at /dev/random (quick question) |
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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.
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