2008-10-15 12:09:20

by Bodo Eggert

[permalink] [raw]
Subject: Fwd: Re: Perfectly Random

Glenn Powers <[email protected]> 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?).