Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:38:23 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] random: Account for entropy loss due to overwrites | From | Linus Torvalds <> |
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This doesn't work AT ALL. You even hint at the reason why in your message.
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 9:26 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote: > > As such, this conservatism seems more than justified. Note, however, > that attempting to add one bit of entropy will never succeed; nor will > two bits unless the pool is completely empty. These roundoff > artifacts could be improved by using fixed-point arithmetic and adding > some number of fractional entropy bits.
Take a look at "add_interrupt_randomness()". Hmm..
Linus
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