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Re: best way to create entropy?


From: JC Dill <jcdill.lists () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 02:41:35 -0700

On 11/10/12 5:01 PM, shawn wilson 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?
You might want to take a look at:
http://www.lavarnd.org/news/lavadiff.html

jc


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