Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 12:35:08 +0200
From: Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, mpm@selenic.com, akpm@osdl.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/14] random: Remove SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM from network drivers
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> > Consider adding a cheap soundcard to the system and run
> > 'audio-entropyd': www.vanheusden.com/aed 
> Can't get much cheaper than the crap that comes on every motherboard
> these days ;-)
> Also aren't temp sensors (on the disk or mobo) a good entropy source?

Not sure about that. If I look at
http://keetweej.vanheusden.com/draw_temp.php?limit=86400 it looks like
that at least the cpu sensor gets only updated every x seconds.


Folkert van Heusden

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