/dev/random for FreeBSD [was: Re: /dev/random for Linux]
Michael Shields
shields at tembel.org
Tue Oct 31 14:59:10 PST 1995
In article <199510311715.TAA05821 at grumble.grondar.za>,
Mark Murray <mark at grondar.za> wrote:
> forever {
> cat /dev/random > /dev/null
> }
>
> Severely limiting most decent folk's chance at getting PGP to work.
Ideally, if two processes are trying to read /dev/random at the same time,
both would get data at half-speed. Doesn't it work that way already?
--
Shields.
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