Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: use of add_interrupt_randomness in drivers missing in many drivers | Date | Wed, 18 Oct 2000 14:21:06 -0300 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Sandy Harris <sandy@storm.ca> said:
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> I'd still like to see the patch applied, though. I'd like /dev/random > to work well "out of the box" on the FreeS/WAN gateways people are > building out of older surplus hardware.
The question at hand is more "looks like it works well", and it is extremely hard to ensure it does in fact work well (behaves like random under _all_ reasonable circumstances, given foes possibly controlling its environment) exactly because it should appear random. -- 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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