Re: [wlug] Discarding data to /dev/random instead of /dev/null

I wrote:

On Fri, 20 Mar 2015 13:18:12 +1300, Eric Light wrote:

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I just happened across this article, recommending that discardable output be redirected to /dev/random instead of just thrown into /dev/null

https://pthree.org/2014/12/07/use-dev-random-instead-of-dev-null/

Looks interesting - keen to hear other thoughts.

Well, it can’t hurt...

However, note this from the random(4) man page: Writing to /dev/random or /dev/urandom will update the entropy pool with the data written, but this will not result in a higher entropy count. This means that it will impact the contents read from both files, but it will not make reads from /dev/random faster.