Re: /dev/random blocked

[Stephen Smoogen <smoogen lanl gov>]

On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 12:47, Jos Vos wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 08:38:45AM -0700, Jeffrey Siegal wrote:
> 
> > At one time Linux did not use SCSI disk accesses to refill the entropy 
> > pool (but IDE disk accesses did).  On a server without a mouse/keyboard 
> > and with limited network traffic, it was easy to exhaust the entropy 
> > pool.  Not sure if that is still the case.
> 
> But this server has 200-300 Mbps (sustained) network traffic...

not sure that ethernet traffic is used either because it is one of those
items that can possibly be primed from the outside. [Send 1000000
packets that look like ZYX and the random number generator isnt
random..]

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