Messages in this thread | | | From | Gunter Ohrner <> | Subject | Re: Entropy Pool Contents | Date | Thu, 23 Nov 2006 22:34:43 +0100 |
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Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Only some devices/drivers generate entropy data. Some network drivers,
Yes, I know, but block device operations should, and directly feeding data into /dev/*random, as I did, definitely should.
This machine usually has only very limited entropy available, but the pool currently seeems to bee stuck at "0" - there's no way to get it to even display a slightly different number. That's what confused me pretty much...
Normally doing disk IO helps a bit, but it currently does not at all.
> pcnet32 and the 8250 driver to generate entropy since otherwise I tended > to run out very quickly.
I guess I also should do that - as this machine has several network cards on different networks, that will be definiteely more seecure than running with a completely empty entropy pool stuck at zero bits for several days in a row...
Greetings,
Gunter
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