Messages in this thread |  | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Problem with random.c and PPC | Date | 15 Aug 2002 18:50:32 -0700 |
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Followup to: <20020815210449.GA26993@opus.bloom.county> By author: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Ah, thanks. In that case, no. It doesn't look like the input-layer USB > keyboards contribute to entropy (but mice do), and I don't think the ADB > ones do. I'll take a crack at adding this to keyboards monday maybe. >
Be careful... USB devices are *always* going to speak at the same place in the USB cycle... I believe that is 1 ms. Thus, submillisecond resolution is *not* random.
-hpa
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