[Gllug] Questions arising from the random discussions...

Walter Stanish walter.stanish at saffrondigital.com
Mon Aug 2 23:20:43 UTC 2010


>> It may be of interest to read Documentation/hw_random.txt in /usr/src/linux
>
> That's about Linux's support for *hardware* random number generators (that
> is to say, those that need direct kernel support).

Yes, they're in most modern PCs and the original question was "where does
the stream for /dev/random and /dev/urandom come from ..."

- Walter
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