feeding rnd entropy
Daniel Carosone <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.devel.crypto |
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On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 08:15:27PM -0000, Peter Hendrickson wrote: > Daniel Carosone wrote: > >On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 09:23:43PM -0000, Peter Hendrickson wrote: > >> I have some code which implements an entropy monitoring daemon. When > >> your entropy pool runs low, it frobs the disk until the level is > >> restored: http://www.wiredyne.com/software/bitstir.html > > > > Without actually having looked at it yet, this is useful. > > Just to plug the product a little, I've been running it for some time > and it's worked fairly well. It's smart about stopping as soon as the > entropy pool is restored. I find it runs maybe a couple of times a > day for less than a minute each time. > > It's still a little raw, but if there's sufficient interest I'll > polish it up and make a package out of it. Please do! -- Dan.