Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Fast random generator was: Re: Ideas for v2.1 | Date | Tue, 02 Jul 1996 11:24:40 -0600 | From | Drew Eckhardt <> |
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In message <199607021226.OAA00424@elektron.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de>, bon@ele ktron.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de writes: >So I would like to see a fast (possibly much mor predictable) random >generator device (/dev/fandom), running with perhaps 5 MBytes/sec or better >above. Is that feasable?
Possible, but silly. Unless you have need of kernel internals (ie, the entropy pool for /dev/random) your random number generator belongs in a user level process.
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