Re: entropy gathering (was Re: Why does reading from /dev/urandom deplete entropy so much?)

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To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@...>, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath@...>, Jon Masters <jonathan@...>, Alan Cox <alan@...>, Ray Lee <ray@...>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...>, Marc Haber <mh+linux-kernel@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, <hmh@...>
Date: Saturday, December 8, 2007 - 3:53 pm

On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 02:36:33PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:

I think we should re-evaluate having an internal path from the hwrngs
to /dev/[u]random, which will reduce the need for userspace config
that can go wrong.

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Re: entropy gathering (was Re: Why does reading from /dev/ur..., Matt Mackall, (Sat Dec 8, 3:53 pm)