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This is a perl program to collect entropy from a running Unix-like system,
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mostly through various stats calls (vmstat and friends). The output is
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hashed into a pool, stirred with an SHA1 hash, and used to provide
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(theoretically) high-quality random data to callers over a UNIX- or TCP-
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socket interface. This aims to provide functionality similar to the Linux
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/dev/random device, but implemented in a fairly-portable user-space daemon
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so that it can run on many unix-like systems. See the README for common
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usage details.
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