updated information about entropy
Costa Tsaousis (ktsaou) committed
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'system.entropy': {
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- info: '<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(computing)" target="_blank">Entropy</a>, read from <code>/proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail</code>, is like a pool of random numbers that are mainly used in cryptography. It is advised that the pool remains always <a href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/ensuring-randomness-with-linuxs-random-number-generator/" target="_blank">above 200</a>. If the pool of entropy gets empty, you risk your security to be predictable and you should install a user-space random numbers generating daemon, like <a href="http://www.issihosts.com/haveged/" target="_blank">haveged</a>, to keep the pool in healthy levels.'
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+ info: '<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(computing)" target="_blank">Entropy</a>, read from <code>/proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail</code>, is like a pool of random numbers (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//dev/random" target="_blank">/dev/random</a>) that are mainly used in cryptography. It is advised that the pool remains always <a href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/ensuring-randomness-with-linuxs-random-number-generator/" target="_blank">above 200</a>. If the pool of entropy gets empty, you risk your security to be predictable and you should install a user-space random numbers generating daemon, like <a href="http://www.issihosts.com/haveged/" target="_blank">haveged</a> or <code>rng-tools</code> (i.e. <b>rngd</b>), to keep the pool in healthy levels.'
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'system.forks': {