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Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 15:06:33 -0400
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Subject: Re: TPMs and random numbers
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> We should definitely do this.  If the TPM driver could fetch some
> randomness and then call add_device_randomness() to feed this into the
> random driver's entropy pool when it initializes itself, that would be
> ***really*** cool.


rngd already does this.

     Jeff
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