Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262465AbVC3Wbo (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Mar 2005 17:31:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262464AbVC3Wbo (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Mar 2005 17:31:44 -0500 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:59809 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262462AbVC3Wbb (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Mar 2005 17:31:31 -0500 Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 14:27:13 -0800 From: Paul Jackson To: Jeff Garzik Cc: davidsen@tmr.com, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru, davidm@snapgear.com, cryptoapi@lists.logix.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, jmorris@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy (2.6.11) Message-Id: <20050330142713.05e0796d.pj@engr.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <424B1ED0.3010705@pobox.com> References: <4249D06F.30802@tmr.com> <4249D06F.30802@tmr.com> <4249DAD4.9020602@pobox.com> <424B18A1.2060502@tmr.com> <424B1ED0.3010705@pobox.com> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 644 Lines: 17 Jeff wrote: > Or all 1's (more likely), or all 0x55's, or... Stray thought - to follow up stray thought: Hmmm ... run some numbers through a good compression program, and complain if they compress much. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.650.933.1373, 1.925.600.0401 - 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/