faster /dev/random

[Tim]

On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 23:43 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> I've always heard that you can get faster random numbers by generating
> a lot of interrupts.  I usually do something like
> run /etc/cron.daily/mlocate to generate a lot of disk activity.

I've always wondered whether that would provide it with real random
seeding, or seeding with a pattern that might be determinable.  After
all, you're basing it on the disk contents.


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