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Re: building /dev/hwrng version of APR

From: Andres Freund <andres_at_anarazel.de>
Date: 2006-07-25 19:03:24 CEST

Hi,

On Tuesday 25 July 2006 18:46, gmu 2k6 wrote:
> what do you guys think about re-building APR to use use /dev/hwrng
> instead of urandom or random (it's the default IIRC)?
I dont think that that makes much sense. You should use something like rngd
from rng-utils that tests the random data and feeds it back into the kernel.

Greetings,

Andres

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