[ale] what's the difference between

[Jeff Lightner]

You might want to search the BIND mail list archives.   There was some
discussion about random number generation fills in relation to use of
DNSSEC a couple of months back that might give you helpful information.

 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim
Kinney
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 1:47 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] what's the difference between

 

/dev/random and /dev/urandom?

/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.

Is there a way to "add entropy" to get /dev/random to fill quicker?

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James P. Kinney III
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