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Re: [gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded

Alex Schuster

2008-03-27

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Roger Mason writes:

> Alex Schuster <wonko@(protected):
[/dev/random, /dev/urandom]
> > Does anyone know what exactly creates these device nodes and why it
> > could fail?
>
> Some kernel option?
>
> grep RANDOM /usr/src/linux/.config
> CONFIG_HW_RANDOM=y
> CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_INTEL=y
> CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_AMD=y
> CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_GEODE=y
> CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_VIA=y

No, I think they are for special hardware randoem generators only. I don't
heve those enabled in my .config.

 Wonko

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