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    SubjectRe: Intel 810 Random Number Generator
    Frank v Waveren wrote:
    > Am I missing something here? I thought that you could mix all the non-random
    > numbers you want into the entropy pool (long live xor), and it will never make
    > the entropy worse? So I'd say mixing in the RNG won't do any harm, so why not?

    Read the intro text in drivers/char/random.c...

    If the RNG provides a lot more data than other entropy sources, it can
    throw things out of whack.

    Jeff





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