Messages in this thread | | | From | (David Wagner) | Subject | Re: /dev/random in 2.4.6 | Date | 19 Aug 2001 17:29:55 GMT |
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Robert Love wrote: >I put together a patch that addresses this, it allows the user to >configure whether or not network devices contribute to the entropy pool.
Be careful. Probably the right thing to do is to have network devices contribute to the entropy pool but not to the entropy count. If you implement this policy, and use /dev/urandom, you essentially get the best of both worlds, as far as I can see. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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