lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2000]   [Oct]   [18]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
SubjectRe: use of add_interrupt_randomness in drivers missing in many drivers
Date
From
Sandy Harris <sandy@storm.ca> said:

[...]

> I'd still like to see the patch applied, though. I'd like /dev/random
> to work well "out of the box" on the FreeS/WAN gateways people are
> building out of older surplus hardware.

The question at hand is more "looks like it works well", and it is
extremely hard to ensure it does in fact work well (behaves like random
under _all_ reasonable circumstances, given foes possibly controlling its
environment) exactly because it should appear random.
--
Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl
Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431
Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239
Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 12:41    [W:0.102 / U:0.056 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site