Re: RFC: initialize /dev/urandom, is it necessary? Can we do it in a better way?
"Roberto A. Foglietta via busybox" <[email protected]>
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On Mon, 26 Jan 2026 at 15:04, Roberto A. Foglietta <[email protected]> wrote: > [...] > ~> https://github.com/robang74/working-in-progress/blob/main/random.txt Sure it was broken, the generation of the random numbers via shell... ...and when something is SO broken, it is impossible to fix, right? Fixed. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robang74/working-in-progress/0ccb52ddff85c8a012fef0f77dc732850807d3ea/random.txt#:~:text=Evolution%20of%20the-,statistics,-from%2062K%20to Entropy = 7.999398 bits per byte. Chi square distribution for 301312 samples is 251.61, and randomly Arithmetic mean value of data bytes is 127.4828 (127.5 = random). Monte Carlo value for Pi is 3.141980963 (error 0.01 percent). Best regards, R-