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get amount of "entropy" in /dev/random ?

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To: Kernel Linux <linux-kernel@...>
Date: Tuesday, October 2, 2007 - 11:25 am

From the userlevel, can I get an estimate of  "amount of entropy"
in /dev/random, that is, the estimate of number of bytes
readable until it blocks ? Of course multiple processes
can read bytes and this would not be exact ... but still .. as an upper
boundary estimate ?

Thanks
Yakov
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get amount of "entropy" in /dev/random ?, Yakov Lerner, (Tue Oct 2, 11:25 am)
RE: get amount of "entropy" in /dev/random ?, David Schwartz, (Tue Oct 2, 11:49 am)
Re: get amount of "entropy" in /dev/random ?, Michal Schmidt, (Tue Oct 2, 11:37 am)
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