Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 08:45:10 -0500
From: Jean-Luc Cooke <jlcooke@certainkey.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com>, johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
       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 Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 06:43:49PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> Consider what an RNG does:  spews garbage.
> 
> In practical applications, you -do not- want to dedicate the machine to 
> spewing garbage.  The vast majority of users would prefer to use their
> machines for real stuff.  Thus, "extreme RNG consumption" is largely
> irrelevant to sane usage.

I have clients who run online Casinos.  So spewing lots of reliable garbage
is a good thing.  That's why they chose Fortuna.  Bad random data input is
not a factor as long as there is enough trustwothy random data coming in.

JLC
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