Re: Continuing /dev/random problems with 2.4

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Date: Fri Feb 01 2002 - 15:12:37 EST


Andreas Dilger wrote:

>
> Maybe, i8XX hardware RNG should feed the /dev/random entropy pool
> directly if you enable the chipset support (with an option to turn
> it off if you want to use the user-space tools or a separate RNG),
> so that people get the benefits of the h/w RNG without having to
> install another tool (which they won't know about)?
>

"Let's put it in the kernel because people are too stupid to install it
otherwise"?

No thank you.

        -hpa

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