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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 - 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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