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Ed W wrote: |
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> On 08/03/2010 05:49, Joseph C. Lininger wrote: |
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>>> I think I may be running short of entropy, presumed due to SSP? |
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>>> Essentially I have two or three digit numbers from |
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>>> /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail |
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>> Try timer_entropyd. It's written by the same person who wrote |
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>> audio_entropyd and video_entropyd. The up side is you don't need any |
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>> special hardware and it will jump your available entropy up by quite a |
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>> bit. Not as good as a true hardware generator most likely, but probably |
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>> perfectly fine for your purposes. |
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>> http://www.vanheusden.com/te/ |
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>> It's not available in portage, though I've been looking at writing an |
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>> ebuild for it. |
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> Thanks for the suggestion - I had spotted it, but skipped over it |
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> temporarily since there was no ebuild. |
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I posted one to Bugzilla if you don't mind maintaining your own |
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overlays. Once it gets re-assigned and I've had enough coffee to |
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understand their FAQ, I might try to get it committed to sunrise. |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=308599 |
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