Messages in this thread |  | | From | (David Wagner) | Subject | Re: Problem with random.c and PPC | Date | 22 Aug 2002 03:19:40 GMT |
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Chris Friesen wrote: >The problem is this. If you have an embedded system that is headless, >diskless, keyboardless, and >mouseless, then your only remaining source of any interrupt-based >entropy is the network.
Try replacing "network" with "/dev/zero" to see how your sentence sounds, and then maybe the flaw in your reasoning will become apparent.
"If you have an embedded system that is headless, etc., then your only remaining source of entropy is /dev/zero."
Well, sometimes there is just no reliable entropy source on hand. Maybe it's better to admit that than to fool ourselves. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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