Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Aug 2001 10:27:40 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] let Net Devices feed Entropy, updated (1/2) | From | Mike Touloumtzis <> |
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On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 02:26:36AM -0400, Robert Love wrote: > > The solution to this is easy: get something to generate entropy (like my > netdev patch! :) and save/restore the entropy seed.
Agreed, I don't think the netdev patch is a bad idea, and it's helpful in the case I described. I was just getting worried about the assertions (from various directions) that /dev/random and /dev/urandom are practically indistinguishable unless you can break SHA-1. There's enough confusion out there as it is :-).
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