Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] (0/4) Entropy accounting fixes | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 18 Aug 2002 11:25:55 +0100 |
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On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 05:06, dean gaudet wrote: > On 17 Aug 2002, Robert Love wrote: > > > [1] this is why I wrote my netdev-random patches. some machines just > > have to take the entropy from the network card... there is nothing > > else. > > many southbridges come with audio these days ... isn't it possible to get > randomness off the adc even without anything connected to it?
Both the AMD and Intel bridges also come with high speed random number generators (i810-rng, amd768-rng). ADC randomness itself tends to be very suspect.
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