seeding randomness in zee cloud

Wojciech Puchar wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl
Fri May 31 13:59:55 UTC 2013


> 	.. snipped...
>
> 	# Seed Software random generator
> 	#
> 	cat rnd > /dev/random
>
> 	# Activate software random generator as an additional source
> 	sysctl kern.random.sys.harvest.swi=1
>
> Or does this cause a loss/reset of all entropy gathered by the hardware sofar ?

no - writing to /dev/random "adds randomness"


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