Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 24 Jan 2000 16:13:05 +0100 | | From | Pavel Machek <> | | Subject | Re: Intel 810 Random Number Generator |
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hi!
> > > Is it feasible to offer a compile-time option which simply replaces > > > /dev/random? > > > > Methinks that would be an error. You'd be trusting the RNG too much. > > Use it as an input to /dev/random by all means, but not as a > > replacement. > > Either you trust RNG or you don't. There is no middle ground.
I just trust hardware RNG to be more random then keypresses. Yes there is middle ground.
> If you do not trust RNG, then using it as a /dev/random entropy source > is pointless. Why introduce theoretically non-random entropy to the > /dev/random pool?
We already include keypresses in /dev/random pool. They are not random, are they? Network packet timing is also far from random, is it? But both are still valuable sources of data.
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