Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 May 2008 17:58:19 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM |
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Theodore Tso wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 01:01:36PM -0700, Chris Peterson wrote: >> Please correct me if I'm wrong, but this thread's conclusions seem to be: >> >> * network interrupts are an inappropriate source of entropy (see my patch) >> * headless servers need entropy, but should seek a better solution, >> such as EGD, hardware RNG, or other kernel entropy sources (but that >> is a separate task) >> * TPM RNG is a separate task and, if implemented, should be in >> drivers/char/hw_random/ > > The TPM RNG task is probably best done in a user space process, which > might also do other things like pulling environmental noise from the > sound card's microphone, etc. > > The problem is finding someone with the skills, time, and energy to > create the appropriate user space daemon. All of the kernel > interfaces already exist; it's just matter of implementing the user > space support.
rngd is already deployed in most distros, via rng-tools. Motivated people are welcome to steal maintainership from me...
Jeff
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