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SubjectRe: [PATCH] (0/4) Entropy accounting fixes
FromRobert Love <>
Date18 Aug 2002 13:03:58 -0400
On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 12:59, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Is there anything that actually uses /dev/random at all (except for 
> clueless programs that really don't need to)?

Some OpenSSH installs must use /dev/random (either an earlier version
than what Oliver quoted or the distribution changed it) because I have
seen headless/diskless machines where they block on ssh session key
generation indefinitely.  I wrote my netdev-random to solve this...

We have seen similar stuff on embedded devices at MontaVista.

> Now this I absolutely agree with. The xor'ing of the buffer data is 
> clearly a good idea. I agree 100% with this part. You'll see no arguments 
> against this part at all.

Yes this is _very_ smart.

	Robert Love

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