Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:00:46 -0300 | From | Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] hw_random: add quality categories |
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On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Michael Buesch wrote: > On Tuesday 26 June 2007 16:06:25 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > Which, AFAIK, we can quantify as the minimum expected entropy in the output. > > The category is _not_ a measure of the entropy in the output. > It is _just_ to get the chance to get a sane _default_ policy > for which RNG is enabled by default, in the kernel. > It's just about a default policy. _Nothing_ else.
Then why don't you call it "preference", or something to that effect?
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