On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Philipp Marek <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:philipp@marek.priv.at">philipp@marek.priv.at</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div id=":1r8">Here it is; using some bytes of /dev/urandom it mixes more entropy into the RNG.<br>
I noticed that fread() with current debian would always buffer 4kB, so I had to move to<br>
open()/read().<br>
</div></blockquote></div><br>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?<br>
<br clear="all">Juanjo<br><br>-- <br>Instituto de Física Fundamental, CSIC<br>c/ Serrano, 113b, Madrid 28006 (Spain) <br><a href="http://juanjose.garciaripoll.googlepages.com" target="_blank">http://juanjose.garciaripoll.googlepages.com</a><br>