Fwd: Re: Perfectly Random

From: Bodo Eggert
Date: Wed Oct 15 2008 - 08:09:21 EST


Glenn Powers <glenn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This is a proposal for a linux kernel module. This module will transfer
> entropy to /dev/random from nuclear decay random number generators.

Transfering randomness to /dev/random should usually be done in userspace.
This allows more complex analysis (like: Is the generator working correctly?).


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