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Re: best way to create entropy?
From: Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 17:43:15 -0700
On Oct 11, 2012, at 5:01 PM, shawn wilson <ag4ve.us () gmail com> wrote:
in the past, i've done many different things to create entropy - encode videos, watch youtube, tcpdump -vvv > /dev/null, compiled a kernel. but, what is best? just whatever gets your cpu to peak or are some tasks better than others?
I find that giving a screwdriver and a hammer to a child between the ages of 4 and 10 will usually do pretty well. Owen
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