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DateFri, 16 May 2008 21:04:45 +0100
FromAlan Cox <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM
> > Piping network randomness into /dev/urandom is probably quite sensible
> > but not into /dev/random.
>
> Well it isn't that things liks ssh and ssl and such don't need that
> level of security, but if there is no way to get it you have to go for
> the best you can get.

So open /dev/urandom in that case. It's a user space problem - this is
policy.

Alan


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