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34 .Nd a utility for manipulating the
45 command is used to set which interrupts are used to help add entropy
46 to the CSPRNG maintained by the kernel.
51 devices are the user interface to this source of randomness.
52 Any changes take effect immediately.
54 The following command line options are supported:
55 .Bl -tag -width indent
57 Turn off all output except errors.
61 to be used as a source of randomness.
62 This option may be repeated for
67 from being used as a source of randomness.
68 This option may be repeated for
72 By default, all IRQs will help develop entropy. The kernel uses a
73 rate-limited helper thread to add the actual entropy and even fast
74 interrupts should not detrimentally affect a running system.
76 .Bl -tag -width ".Pa /dev/urandom" -compact
88 utility first appeared in
97 and wrote the support routines and constructed the man pages.