Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:44:27 -0500 | From | Oliver Xymoron <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] (0/4) Entropy accounting fixes |
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On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 09:06:08PM -0700, dean gaudet wrote: > On 17 Aug 2002, Robert Love wrote: > > > [1] this is why I wrote my netdev-random patches. some machines just > > have to take the entropy from the network card... there is nothing > > else. > > many southbridges come with audio these days ... isn't it possible to get > randomness off the adc even without anything connected to it?
Many southbridges (like Intel 8x0) come with a real RNG.
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