/dev/random is a high quality (cryptographic) random number generator, and will block if there is insufficient entropy. /dev/urandom will use a pseudo-random number generator to fill requests instead of blocking like /dev/random.<br>
<br>David<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/12/5 Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
/dev/random and /dev/urandom?<br><br>/dev/random is very slow and on a newly installed machine `cat /dev/random` does little. Same machine `cat /dev/urandom` fills the screen quickly.<br><br>Is there a way to "add entropy" to get /dev/random to fill quicker?<br clear="all">
<br>-- <br><font color="#888888">-- <br>James P. Kinney III <br><br>
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