Extracted from Pike v7.6 release 61 at 2005-12-30.
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Crypto
Crypto.randomness

Method Crypto.randomness.some_entropy()


Method some_entropy

string Crypto.randomness.some_entropy()

Description

Executes several programs (last -256, arp -a, netstat -anv, netstat -mv, netstat -sv, uptime, ps -fel, ps aux, vmstat -s, vmstat -M, iostat, iostat -cdDItx) to generate some entropy from their output. On Microsoft Windows the Windows cryptographic routines are called to generate random data.