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What happens if I tune my DVB card in, sample /dev/video0 or whatever it is now and use that to add entropy? Is that even possible?


Sure, you can mix more data into the entropy pool just by writing to /dev/urandom. This won't update the entropy estimate though - to do that, you can use the the RNDADDENTROPY ioctl to add data along with the number of bits of entropy you want credited for that data (for this you need to be root, though).




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