Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753255AbcD2VzA (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Apr 2016 17:55:00 -0400 Received: from mail.eperm.de ([89.247.134.16]:54228 "EHLO mail.eperm.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752811AbcD2Vy5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Apr 2016 17:54:57 -0400 From: Stephan Mueller To: George Spelvin Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sandyinchina@gmail.com, tytso@mit.edu Subject: Re: random(4) changes Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 23:54:43 +0200 Message-ID: <2585243.Yy23BEqhqI@positron.chronox.de> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (Linux/4.4.8-300.fc23.x86_64; KDE/4.14.18; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20160429200848.12765.qmail@ns.horizon.com> References: <20160429200848.12765.qmail@ns.horizon.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 501 Lines: 18 Am Freitag, 29. April 2016, 16:08:48 schrieb George Spelvin: Hi George, > > What I am saying that the bits in one given time stamp are mutually > > independent. I.e. bit 0 of one time stamp does not depend on bit 1 of that > > very same time stamp. > > And I'm saying that's wrong. I think we can agree that we disagree. I am not sure whether you have a point or not. Though, I will get back to the drawing board and think about the problem of how to efficiently collect entropy. Ciao Stephan