Re: Entropy Pool Contents

[Martin Mares]

Hello!

> You aren't dumping and restoring the entropy pool; you are dumping 
> random data generated by the pool, and using that data to stir the new 
> entropy pool after the next boot.  There is no direct relationship 
> between the entropy of the old and new pools.  The kernel needs to 
> decide how much entropy you added based on how much random data you 
> provide it with to stir the pool.

Yes, but the point is that you cannot tell how much randomness is in the
data you provide.

				Have a nice fortnight
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Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@xxxxxx>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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