[NCLUG] My attempts using /dev/random...

Bob Proulx bob at proulx.com
Mon Apr 14 19:25:01 MDT 2008


James DeWitt wrote:
> Interesting.  Please explain the algorithm that Linux uses for /dev/random 

The best source is the source itself.  The explanation in the comments
is fairly good and starts on line 45.

  http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=drivers/char/random.c;h=f43c89f7c449831b2441f5f8f55441f2253a65ce;hb=HEAD

Bob



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