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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy (2.6.11)
    On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 02:17:24AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
    > Andi Kleen wrote:
    > >BTW what do you do when the FIPS test fails? I dont see a good fallback
    > >path for this case.
    >
    > If the FIPS test fails, do the obvious: don't feed that data to the
    > kernel (and credit entropy), and possibly stop using the hardware RNG

    This will just cause hangs; basically it is a DOS.

    > under a human has intervened.
    >
    > This is not rocket science. The fallback path is "use software", which
    > is what most users do right now anyway.

    Just that use software does not work on a headless machine sitting
    in a rack with not much disk IO.

    -Andi
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