Le jeudi 31 juillet 2014 à 16:41:01 -0700, pecondon@mesanetworks.net a écrit: > not generated by the functioning of the computer, but from something > like the keystroke times of a human asking for help on this list. It > differs from /dev/urandom in that /dev/random blocks and does not give > any bits if there have not been enough keystrokes since the last call > to replenish the supply of entropy in its entropy store. In contrast, As far as I know, keystrokes aren't the only monitored data used to fill the entropy pool; HDD and network I/Os timestamps are also use, as they can be considered as chaotic. Maybe the kernel doc can help you to know all of entropy sources. I know this isn't really the question, but I think you must know that keystrokes aren't the only entropy sources. Regards. -- David Guyot Administrateur système, réseau et télécommunications / Sysadmin Europe Camions Interactive / Stockway Moulin Collot F-88500 Ambacourt Tel: +33 (0)3 29 30 47 85 Fax : +33 (0)3 29 31 31 31
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