Network Card Entropy? was: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Make cryptoapi non-optional?

[Mike Fedyk]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 07:36:28PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Unfortunately it isn't airtight if the attacker can see the file in
> flight to your NFS-mounted diskless box, although booting over NFS
> would tend to introduce enough entropy by itself so we are fine here :)

Assuming that all network drivers are contributing entropy...

Was Robert Love's patch for this ever merged?
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