FreeBSD - What is an ENTROPY file / ENTROPY in general?

[Superwormy]

FreeBSD - What is an ENTROPY file / ENTROPY in general?

 

[techwanabe]

Entropy is one of those laws I learned in college physics which generally states:

Things tend to go from order to disorder, unless operated on by an outside force.

You know, kind of like your house does!

 

[Nothinman]

Entropy is used to generate random data, since a computer has no way to generate truly random data it has to take entropy from outside sources.

There should be a file called /dev/random or /dev/urandom that just outputs random data.