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SubjectRe: Perfectly Random
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Glenn Powers wrote:

> THE KERNEL MODULE WILL:
>
> Copy the current CPU clock tick of these interrupts to a ring buffer.
>
> THEN:
>
> A Linux-RTAI application will compute the entropy and transfer it to
> /dev/random, a database or a network interface.
>
> THEN:
>
> The system can be tuned.
>
> THEN:
>
> The best tunings can be incorporated into the "RandomNuclear" module.

why can't userspace talk to this external hardware and get a count from
it, and then insert it into the random pool without involving any kernel
module?

also, anything that depends on the exact CPU clock tick of when interrupts
happen has just sacraficed a LOT of it's randomness to the particulars of
various motherboards.

David Lang


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