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Sure, you can mix more data into the entropy pool just by writing to /dev/urandom. This won't update the entropy estimate though - to do that, you can use the the RNDADDENTROPY ioctl to add data along with the number of bits of entropy you want credited for that data (for this you need to be root, though).


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