Solaris random device

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Thu May 11 17:19:02 CEST 2000


On Thu, 11 May 2000, Andreas Pommer wrote:

> That seems to be the answer. One possible solution would be to skip the
> select() if the fact is known that the device does not block.

We can't do that because we should be somewhat sure about how much
entropy we got.  

  Werner

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