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Bitstir monitors the level of entropy available from /dev/random and
generates disk activity to automatically restore this level when it
gets low.  Programs which block when entropy runs out are delayed only
momentarily if at all.

Bitstir was written by Peter Hendrickson <pdh@wiredyne.com>.  There
is a page at http://www.wiredyne.com/software/bitstir.html.