Re: use of add_interrupt_randomness in drivers missing in many drivers

From: Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl)
Date: Wed Oct 18 2000 - 12:21:06 EST

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Sandy Harris <sandy@storm.ca> said:

[...]

> I'd still like to see the patch applied, though. I'd like /dev/random
> to work well "out of the box" on the FreeS/WAN gateways people are
> building out of older surplus hardware.

The question at hand is more "looks like it works well", and it is
extremely hard to ensure it does in fact work well (behaves like random
under _all_ reasonable circumstances, given foes possibly controlling its
environment) exactly because it should appear random.

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