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On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 00:01, Linus Torvalds wrote: > So I think that if we just made the code be much less trusting (say, > consider the TSC information per interrupt to give only a single bit of > entropy, for example), and coupled that with making network devices always > be considered sources of entropy, we'd have a reasonable balance. I think that sounds good. I have a patch which I can send - it needs to be rediffed I suspect - that has each network device feed the entropy pool. (Actually, it creates a new flag, SA_NET_RANDOM, that defines to SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM or 0 depending on a configure setting. If you want it unconditional, that is just as easy though). Robert Love - 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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