Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269143AbUIXUrL (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:47:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269142AbUIXUrG (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:47:06 -0400 Received: from smtp.knology.net ([24.214.63.101]:45756 "HELO smtp.knology.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S269121AbUIXUoJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:44:09 -0400 Message-ID: <4154871D.2090209@coyotegulch.com> Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:44:13 -0400 From: Scott Robert Ladd User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040919) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jean-Luc Cooke CC: "Theodore Ts'o" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL/PATCH] Fortuna PRNG in /dev/random References: <20040923234340.GF28317@certainkey.com> <20040924043851.GA3611@thunk.org> <20040924125457.GO28317@certainkey.com> <20040924174301.GB20320@thunk.org> <20040924175929.GU28317@certainkey.com> In-Reply-To: <20040924175929.GU28317@certainkey.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 692 Lines: 17 Jean-Luc Cooke wrote: > If I submitted a patch that gave users the choice of swapping my Fortuna for > the current /dev/random, would you be cool with that then? I would certainly appreciate this option, given that my customers often have very different ideas of what they need. I don't see how it hurts the kernel to have a choice for /dev/random. -- Scott Robert Ladd site: http://www.coyotegulch.com blog: http://chaoticcoyote.blogspot.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/