Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Aug 2004 06:01:42 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8.1-P0 |
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* Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:
> I will try next with /dev/random disabled. Don't most/many new > machines have a hardware RNG that would eliminate the need for this > code?
The C3 does have one IIRC, but do Intel CPUs have it too? Also, there's the question of trust - how random it truly is. Is it a partly pseudo-RNG masked via encryption? /dev/random i know is random, driven by random timings of real disks and real network packets. The CPU's HRNG is much more encapsulated and can only be blackbox-tested.
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