Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Apr 2016 20:44:39 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: random(4) changes |
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Hi1
> > When dropping the add_disk_randomness function in the legacy /dev/random, I > > would assume that without changes to add_input_randomness and > > add_interrupt_randomness, we become even more entropy-starved. > > Sure, but your system isn't doing anything magical here. The main > difference is that you assume you can get almost a full bit of entropy > out of each interrupt timing, where I'm much more conservative and > assume we can only get 1/64th of a bit out of each interrupt timing.
Maybe 1/64th of a bit is a bit too conservative? I guess we really have more than one bit of entropy on any system with timestamp counter....
Making it 1/2 of bit (or something) should be very easy way to improve entropy early during boot...
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