1995-10-31 - Re: /dev/random for FreeBSD [was: Re: /dev/random for Linux]
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From: shields@tembel.org (Michael Shields)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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Reply To: <199510311715.TAA05821@grumble.grondar.za>
UTC Datetime: 1995-10-31 22:59:10 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 06:59:10 +0800
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From: shields@tembel.org (Michael Shields)
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 06:59:10 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: /dev/random for FreeBSD [was: Re: /dev/random for Linux]
In-Reply-To: <199510311715.TAA05821@grumble.grondar.za>
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In article <199510311715.TAA05821@grumble.grondar.za>,
Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> wrote:
> forever {
> cat /dev/random > /dev/null
> }
>
> Severely limiting most decent folk's chance at getting PGP to work.
Ideally, if two processes are trying to read /dev/random at the same time,
both would get data at half-speed. Doesn't it work that way already?
--
Shields.
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