On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 09:56 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:Thomas Gleixner wrote:
Well, there is enough prove out there that the hardware you're usingWe started out going down that path:
is a perfect random number generator by itself.
So stop complaining about not having access to TPM chips if you can
create an entropy source just by (ab)using the inherent randomness of
modern CPU architectures to refill your entropy pool on the fly when
the need arises w/o imposing completely unintuitive thresholds and
user visible API changes.
http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-crypto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg05778.html
We hit a bit of a roadblock with it though.
Have you guys seen this work:
http://lwn.net/images/conf/rtlws11/random-hardware.pdf