Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] (0/4) Entropy accounting fixes | From | Robert Love <> | Date | 18 Aug 2002 13:03:58 -0400 |
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On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 12:59, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Is there anything that actually uses /dev/random at all (except for > clueless programs that really don't need to)?
Some OpenSSH installs must use /dev/random (either an earlier version than what Oliver quoted or the distribution changed it) because I have seen headless/diskless machines where they block on ssh session key generation indefinitely. I wrote my netdev-random to solve this...
We have seen similar stuff on embedded devices at MontaVista.
> Now this I absolutely agree with. The xor'ing of the buffer data is > clearly a good idea. I agree 100% with this part. You'll see no arguments > against this part at all.
Yes this is _very_ smart.
Robert Love
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