Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: PIII kernel support- hardware randomizer | Date | Thu, 14 Oct 1999 14:06:09 -0300 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Brian Hall <brianw.hall@compaq.com> said: > I am currently using an overclocked Celeron 300 (now 450). The only real > interest I have in the PIII and above is the hardware random number > generator (using thermal noise). I have seen discussion of PIII kernel > patches, but not about the random number generator. Does support for > this exist or is it planned, and is there a repository for PIII patches?
I'd be _very_ suspicious of something like that. To get a decent distribution is probably quite hard and not done routinely. Besides, there is _no_ way to check if it is misbehaving or feeding you a deterministic sequence. Fine for games, perhaps. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513
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