Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 07:30:20 +1000
To: Jean-Luc Cooke <jlcooke@certainkey.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.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 Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 08:45:10AM -0500, Jean-Luc Cooke wrote:
> 
> 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.

I don't think the Casino operators will be very happy when their supposed
hardware RNGs degenerate into software RNGs because it's feeding all zeros
into /dev/random and nobody noticed...
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