| Extracted from Pike v7.8 release 700 at 2013-06-08.

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Crypto
Crypto.randomness

# Method Crypto.randomness.some_entropy()

Method some_entropy

  `string some_entropy()`

Description

  Executes several programs (last -256, arp -a, netstat -anv, netstat -mv, netstat -sv, uptime, ps -fel, ps aux, vmstat -s, vmstat -M, iostat, iostat -cdDItx) to generate some entropy from their output. On Microsoft Windows the Windows cryptographic routines are called to generate random data.