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SubjectRe: [PATCH] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy (2.6.11)
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On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 08:45:10AM -0500, Jean-Luc Cooke wrote:
>
> I have clients who run online Casinos. So spewing lots of reliable garbage
> is a good thing. That's why they chose Fortuna. Bad random data input is
> not a factor as long as there is enough trustwothy random data coming in.

I don't think the Casino operators will be very happy when their supposed
hardware RNGs degenerate into software RNGs because it's feeding all zeros
into /dev/random and nobody noticed...
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