I want to see how /dev/random creates random numbers. I understand that it uses entropy made from interrupts but I’d still like to see the source and how it works.
Thanks
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I want to see how /dev/random creates random numbers. I understand that it uses entropy made from interrupts but I’d still like to see the source and how it works.
Thanks
http://lxr.linux.no/linux/drivers/char/random.c