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Re: Increasing entropy



On 12-06-08 02:31 PM, Paul_Koning%Dell.com@localhost wrote:
Also, whether our current /dev/random is good or not, stirring /dev/urandom 
into it is a waste of time, because /dev/urandom is simply /dev/random without 
the blocking.

I see.  So basically I should just switch to /dev/urandom if I get too
much blocking.  Can I just unlink /dev/random and create a new node
with the same characteristics as /dev/urandom?

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D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy%NetBSD.org@localhost>
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