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Benny Amorsen <benny+usenet@...>
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Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM
Date: Friday, May 16, 2008 - 4:34 pm
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
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> If they don't need that level of security they can use /dev/urandom. > Piping network randomness into /dev/urandom is probably quite sensible > but not into /dev/random.
Perhaps it would be possible to make most types of interrupts add entropy, but not credit any entropy? /Benny --
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