Any doc reference on /entropy file ?
Wojciech Puchar
wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl
Tue Dec 16 15:08:02 UTC 2008
>
> -rw------- 1 root wheel 4096 Dec 11 17:36 entropy
>
> I can't find any reference to that file in FreeBSD doc.
>
> Any reference to it ? What is it used for ? I have look in RANDOM area, but
> no reference...
at startup it seeds random generator, every 11 minutes and at shutdown
it's saved from random generator.
it's here to make random generator more random - not starting clean at
boot.
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