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Re: building /dev/hwrng version of APR

From: gmu 2k6 <gmu2006_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2006-07-25 20:28:07 CEST

On 7/25/06, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> 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.

and it makes it available then via urandom or random? I guess it's random.

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