Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 18 Aug 2001 21:38:21 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] let Net Devices feed Entropy, updated (1/2) |
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On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, Oliver Xymoron wrote: > On 18 Aug 2001, Robert Love wrote: > > > obviously some people fear NICs feeding entropy provides a hazard. for > > those who dont, or are increadibly low on entropy, enable the > > configuration option. > > Why don't those who aren't worried about whether they _really_ have > enough entropy simply use /dev/urandom?
So how are you going to feed /dev/urandom on your firewall ?? (which has no keyboard, program or disk activity)
Network entropy is probably better than no entropy for many applications.
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