| |||||||||||||
bogus random entropy sourcesbogus random entropy sourcesPosted Oct 6, 2010 3:47 UTC (Wed) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246)In reply to: bogus random entropy sources by PaulWay Parent article: Solid-state storage devices and the block layer
Well, /dev/urandom doesn't block when the kernel entropy pool runs out. The hardware crypto acceleration may've been getting used, but that's orthogonal to the question of gathering entropy.
(Log in to post comments)
bogus random entropy sources Posted Oct 6, 2010 19:34 UTC (Wed) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]
Hehe, so shred was using entropy collected from the disk controllers, collected from shred writing to disks..
|
|||||||||||||