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

David Ford (david@linux.com)
Fri, 12 Jan 2001 20:44:43 -0800


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

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