test, and password generator

Will Ware wware at alum.mit.edu
Tue Aug 28 00:23:33 EDT 2001


Paul Rubin wrote:

> If you're running linux, you should get random data by reading bytes
> from /dev/urandom.

That would be better. But whenever I test things like this, I get
compulsive and run it so many times that I exhaust the entropy pool,
and then my read() of /dev/random just sits there. I'd be curious to
know if you have any clever thoughts on replenishing the entropy
pool quicker without losing much security.





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