Re: BUG in 2.4.0: dd if=/dev/random of=out.txt bs=10000 count=100

[Rob Landley]

--- David Ford <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Rob Landley wrote:
> 
> > If I do the dd line in the title under 2.4.0 I get
> an
> > out.txt file of 591 bytes.
> 
> It isn't broken, you have no more entropy.  You must
> have some system
> activity of various sorts before you regain some
> entropy.  Moving the mouse
> around, hitting keys, etc, will slowly add more
> entropy.
> 
> -d

I'd wondered what urandom was for.  Thanks.

Rob

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