Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 19 Aug 2001 18:47:03 -0500 (CDT) | From | Oliver Xymoron <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] let Net Devices feed Entropy, updated (1/2) |
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On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, Oliver Xymoron wrote:
> My understanding is that net devices are still mixing data into the pool, > but with an entropy estimate of zero.
..which appears to be wrong.
> If they're not mixing data into the pool at all any more, then that > seems wrong to me - we should be adding likely sources of entropy as > well, even if we can't rely on them enough to credit them.
What we really need is an add_untrusted_randomness().
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