[Ecls-list] ECL start and random numbers - PATCH

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Philipp Marek <philipp at marek.priv.at> wrote:

> Here it is; using some bytes of /dev/urandom it mixes more entropy into the
> RNG.
> I noticed that fread() with current debian would always buffer 4kB, so I
> had to move to
> open()/read().
>

Phillip, I still did not get any answer from my previous email: why is it a
problem that ECL reads the amount of bytes that it reads now? And how does
reading less bytes provide the same initial entropy to the RNG?

Juanjo

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