Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:16:06 -0600 | From | "Chris Friesen" <> | Subject | Re: IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM question... |
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Gilles Espinasse wrote:
> Readme say : > "This daemon attempts to collect real randomness from fluctuations of > high-frequency clocks on a PC's mainboard. The basic assumption is that > mainboard and CPU are clocked by two separate physical clocks."
> How large is this basic assumption true, on x86, on other arch?
Isn't the cpu frequency normally a phase-locked multiple of the mainboard bus frequency?
Chris
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