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Re: /dev/random for FreeBSD [was: Re: /dev/random for Linux]



In article <[email protected]>,
Mark Murray <[email protected]> wrote:
> forever {
> 	cat /dev/random > /dev/null
> }
> 
> Severely limiting most decent folk's chance at getting PGP to work.

Ideally, if two processes are trying to read /dev/random at the same time,
both would get data at half-speed.  Doesn't it work that way already?
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