Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Oct 2003 19:07:58 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] frandom - fast random generator module |
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Eli Billauer wrote: > If a hardware device driver is buggy, you usually know about it sooner > or later. If an RNG has a rare bug, or an architecture-dependent flaw, > it's much harder to notice. If the RNG starts to repeat itself, you > won't know about it, unless you happened to test exactly that data. The > algorithm may be perfect, but a silly bug can blow it all.
rngd tests for this :)
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