file

The file option is used to specify files whose access times the PRNGD uses as an entropy source. You can specify this option as often as you wish. The files specified are entered in a list which is processed cyclically at intervals defined by the fileInterval option. Multiple specification of the same file is also possible. This can, for example, make sense in the case of files which are accessed much more frequently than the other specified files.

The entropy collected by this mechanism plays no part in entropy accounting.

file

<file-name>

<file-name>

Name of the file whose access times are used as an entropy source.