Re: [PROPOSAL/PATCH] Fortuna PRNG in /dev/random

From: Scott Robert Ladd
Date: Fri Sep 24 2004 - 15:53:23 EST


Jean-Luc Cooke wrote:
If I submitted a patch that gave users the choice of swapping my Fortuna for
the current /dev/random, would you be cool with that then?

I would certainly appreciate this option, given that my customers often have very different ideas of what they need. I don't see how it hurts the kernel to have a choice for /dev/random.

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Scott Robert Ladd
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