/dev/random in 2.4.6

Steve Hill (steve@navaho.co.uk)
Wed, 15 Aug 2001 16:07:50 +0100 (BST)


Until recently I've been using the 2.2.16 kernel on Cobalt Qube 3's, but
I've just upgraded to 2.4.6. Since there's no mouse, keyboard, etc, there
isn't much entropy data. I had no problem getting plenty of data from
/dev/random under 2.2, but under 2.4.6 there seems to be a distinct lack
of data - it takes absolutely ages to extract about 256 bytes from it
(whereas under 2.2 it was relatively quick). Has there been a major
change in the way the random number generator works under 2.4?

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