Messages in this thread | | | From | Michael Buesch <> | Subject | Re: /dev/random on Linux | Date | Tue, 16 May 2006 16:58:33 +0200 |
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On Tuesday 16 May 2006 10:15, you wrote: > >> I would dismiss 2.2 for the cases of things like Knoppix because > >> CDs introduce significant randomness because each time you boot > >> the CD is subtly differently positioned. The OpenWRT case seems > >> more credible.
I think most (all?) of the machines, OpenWRT runs on, are running a bcm43xx wireless chip. This chip has a hardware random number generator. patches to utilize it recently went into -mm. But I must admit, we don't know how it generates random numbers. But someone did some RNG tests on it in the past (I think it was Johannes). - 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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