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I half remember a case where the program(some sort of install or copy I think) would complete faster while shaking your mouse around. I will look for the artic
by somat 3y ago
I half remember a case where the program(some sort of install or copy I think) would complete faster while shaking your mouse around.
I will look for the article.
This was different from the old gpg prompts that instructed to move the mouse around when generating keys.
update: it was probably this effect.
https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/11535 https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/11535
- magicalhippo 3y agoPuTTYgen waits for you to move the mouse across a portion of the screen enough times when generating keys[1], sampling the mouse position for entropy. [1]: https://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.80/htmldoc/Chapter8.html#puttygen-generate https://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.80/htmldoc/Chapter8.h...
- xxr 3y agoHere’s the particular explanation I remember reading a few years back: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/11535 https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/11535