Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Nov 2006 22:05:33 +0100 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: Entropy Pool Contents |
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Hello!
> That is exactly my point. Since you can not tell how much randomness is > in the data you provide, you can not tell the kernel how much to add to > its entropy estimate. Instead it just has to estimate based on the > amount of data you provide.
No, the only safe thing the kernel can do is to add NO entropy, unless explicitly told otherwise.
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