Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 Jan 2000 10:02:54 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Intel 810 Random Number Generator |
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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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