RE: Entropy from net devices - keyboard & IDE just as 'bad' [was Re: [PATCH] let Net Devices feed Entropy, updated (1/2)]

From: Alex Bligh - linux-kernel (linux-kernel@alex.org.uk)
Date: Sun Aug 19 2001 - 17:38:28 EST

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> To what level of accuracy do you think you can measure when interrupts
> occur?

Better than the necessary 1 jiffie on non-i386 platforms and some
i386 platforms.

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