Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 08:20:57 +1100
To: Jean-Luc Cooke <jlcooke@certainkey.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
       cryptoapi@lists.logix.cz, David McCullough <davidm@snapgear.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy (2.6.11)
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On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 09:25:40AM -0500, Jean-Luc Cooke wrote:
> 
> If your RNG were properly written, it shouldn't matter if the data you're
> pumping into /dev/random passed muster or not.  If you're tracking entropy
> count, then that's a different story of course.

We're talking about hardware RNGs here so we need to take hardware faults
into account.

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