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Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM

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From: Glen Turner <gdt@...>
To: Benny Amorsen <benny+usenet@...>
Cc: <netdev@...>, <linux-kernel@...>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM
Date: Sunday, May 25, 2008 - 11:02 am

On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 22:34 +0200, Benny Amorsen wrote:


You need to be certain that those sources are not able
to be influenced by a hostile party, otherwise the entropy
pool can be degraded to be less random over successive samples
than its entropy score suggests.  Interrupts do not meet that
test.

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Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few us..., Benny Amorsen, (Fri May 16, 4:34 pm)
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