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[ale] what's the difference between
- Subject: [ale] what's the difference between
- From: jim.kinney at gmail.com (Jim Kinney)
- Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 13:47:18 -0500
/dev/random and /dev/urandom?
/dev/random is very slow and on a newly installed machine `cat /dev/random`
does little. Same machine `cat /dev/urandom` fills the screen quickly.
Is there a way to "add entropy" to get /dev/random to fill quicker?
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James P. Kinney III
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